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Delda.... You should also report that email address (fetish@XXX) directly to the AOL Postmaster as someone who's using AOL as a base for committing fraud. While I'm not an AOL member, therefor can't be surf the following address is the correct one, you might try [log in to unmask] and see if it'll work. ALL online services look at email fraud as a VERY serious matter especially when it appears to originate from THEIR service! AOL takes it even more seriously than others such services, even going to the point of filing charges and prosecution. And they've WON several cases in court! I know this creates a lot of busy-work for you but it'd be worth the effort if you could help in nailing the sleaze who fraudulently used your checking account! GOOD LUCK! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Delda White <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 5:24 PM Subject: Non-PD: Fraud/e-mail connection? >Today I opened my monthly bank statement and, to my horror, found that it >contained an odd-ball check that my bank had honored. The check has my name >on it, but an address that couldn't be farther away. The phone number listed >is consistent with the address (3,000 miles from me). The amount: $170. For >a pager. I've never had one. > >I called my bank immediately (it's a very big one) and they believed me -- >told me to go in Mon. morning to file an affadavit of "fraudulent activity" in >my account. I will certainly do so. > >Some woman called me about 10 days ago to ask if I would approve the billing >to me of the cost of a pager. I told her absolutely not and slammed down the >phone. I thought at the time that it was a nuisance call. > >What I wonder is: How did those people know which bank to use for their >fraudulent check? (It looks nothing like my bank checks.) How did these >fraud-perpetrators get my phone number (it is not on our checks and is not >even in the phone book)? I will ask my bank the same questions Mon. morning >and if necessary will contact the state Attorney General's office. My first >thought was that somehow e-mail was responsible, since this pager is for (or >from, not sure which) [log in to unmask] I no longer think so. But I would >welcome any suggestions and ideas. I thought I'd have to leave the PD and >CARE lists in order to protect myself, and that may still be true. > >D. White (I hate even to sign this much of my name) >