Just had a $1,900 laptop show up on my front door

[Solus]

My credit card is being used by someone in Nashville.

I'd turn them in and get a new card, but they are only spending half of what I was.....

[Big Frank]

A friend told me today that someone made a charge to her checking account in New York at Saks Fifth Avenue. It was $550 for a T-shirt with a monkey on it, but it could have been worse. They have a $1,220.00 Prada hoodie with a monkey on it too. She called the bank and they put the money back in her account. Within a couple of hours someone used her checking account to buy something in California. I can't remember what it was, but it was something she'd never buy, like a big box full of guitar picks or something equally useless. So she called the bank again and got her money back. There was a third charge for $9 that she's not even going to worry about, but she's closing the account or something so it doesn't keep happening.

https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524447242889&R=8056382417204&P_name=Prada&Ntt=monkey&N=0&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306418050&bmUID=mg84xrx


With 50 million credit cards stolen here and 150 million Social Security numbers stolen there, all this information is cheap and plentiful on the dark web. Some information, like maybe an account number, might be sold for less than a dollar. The lowest I ever heard of was around 50 cents worth of bitcoin. Full IDs with name, address, medical records, bank account numbers, SS numbers, etc. can cost hundreds of dollars, but on average your information sells for around 20 bucks. $21.35 according to a 3 year old article I found online, but the price should be less with the huge amount that's been stolen by now. Supply and demand, you know.