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How many times has your car been robbed while surfing?
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Nope.Sucks man, sorry to hear . . . But doesn't your wetsuit have a key pocket
Was wearing it around my neck for a bit and have used key loops in the past, but it always bothered me leaving my house keys in the car with my wallet/ID.
Initially thought that too.
Not a day to be beach combing though.
Wouldn't have needed a spotter in my case - see my hypothesis above.
Hopefully you get your cash back. I'd be surprised if they could move that much out that quickly . . . Even doing an in person wire transfer with my bank requires a lot of delays and redundancies for fraud prevention.
Pretty crazy.
The transfers were piece by piece. A total of 8 transfers.
At the same time they had a pal at the Apple Store in Carlsbad (I'm guessing an employee) trying to load up on thousands in merchandise using my CC number. Hmmm...
Funny thing is Wells has always been overprotective until today. All I had to do one time is say "I can't find my credit card" over the phone and they immediately shut that card down, leaving me stranded.
Further, first thing they did today was change the password on my Wells account. That requires the last 4 digits of my SSN. No idea how they would have done that unless they have a friend at Wells.
Pros for sure. Organized!
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Towels, flipflops, sunglasses, weed, cigarettes even, and that was just off the beach in the days before cellphones even, my cars, well I wouldn't even know I never bothered locking my first truck and was too drunk rolling in sh!t to realize if someone took anything . Current ride, nobody messes with it around here or Hatteras. I'd be a good target though, for about $20 and some beat up fins, change.
I'm the ho-dad that steals your wax.
I'm the ho-dad that steals your wax.
Yet another good reason to get lifelock. They can’t prevent the theft, but they can lock down suspicious credit activity and you’re insured for a million bucks if anything does get stolen
sorry casa that’s awful
sorry casa that’s awful
Holy sh!t. Sorry to hear that. I know I give you a lot of sh!t here but in the end we’re all brothers of the surf. That really sucks.They got me today, first time in over 2 decades.
Buried my keys in the sand today in a downpour at Scripps, nobody in sight. As per usual. Came back and looked like a dog dug a hole in the sand.
Ruh-roh.
Back to the truck, mat was flipped, wallet and celly gone. Doors nicely locked.
Here's the crazy part. Since everything is timestamped I know the sh!t got stolen within 30 mins of being in the water, and within that time frame they had
- broken my iPhone password (they had texted with my wife telling her not to worry about the Wells Fargo fraud alert, that "I" was dealing with it)
- changed the password to+accessed my WellsFargo account (hell I don't even know the password to it because I never access it)
- moved around about $30k of funds within the account
- attempted about $20k worth of purchases of Apple merchandise
The only identifying stuff I had in my wallet was my DL. I don't use Apple Pay or any of that crap.
Pretty fascinating.
Now need to change locks to the house, mailbox.
Truck too I guess.
Thanks for sharing and alerting the rest of us to what’s possible.
PS: this is the reason my family has code words for when texts come through that don’t “feel” right.
This is kind of sounding like you were targeted well beforehand.
Someone at WF and/or Apple Store.
There was Craigs List scam regarding rental properties that I was tied up in. Someone was taking pics from real CList ads and making fake ones offering rental units at roughly half market value. Get people to pay first, last, deposit without ever meeting in person or seeing the property. People would show up at our unit ready to move in….
Anyway, after fraud alerting this sh!t to the Craigs list people, literally for years, it turned that it was a CList employee the whole time.
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Holy sh!t casa that fucking sucks unfathomable amounts of ass. Hope you get your money back.
Yup. that sucks the big one Casa. Sorry to hear it. Hopefully WF is able to claw the money back and make things square.
@r32 that cellebrite device is terrifying.
PS It does indeed seem targeted… if only cuz your old ass truck does not seem like the object of desire for a pro crew.
@r32 that cellebrite device is terrifying.
PS It does indeed seem targeted… if only cuz your old ass truck does not seem like the object of desire for a pro crew.
Probably dumb and way too late: do you have the Find My app activated?
Camera in the store, time stamp and facial recognition? shoots booty casa I humbly reverntly pray to Saint Anthony and face this gets mo bettah hombre..
I'm thinking it's random. Organized crime/theft. Everyone has bank cards. They steal them. They have networks of contacts at banks and in retail. ID theft networks can be pretty broad, lots of people involved. Easy peasy.
So glad I'm not tech savvy, could be a much bigger mess if I was.
Oh well, off to start an exciting day!
So glad I'm not tech savvy, could be a much bigger mess if I was.
Oh well, off to start an exciting day!
I would consider ditching wells after this. They are a shitty bank known for screwing their customers. My bank is overly protective and it pisses me off but there is no way they would allow this to happen.
As you said they must have an inside guy, I would try and email their CEO ( charles.scharf@wellsfargo.com )
Sometimes it helps with your customer service issue, if it’s a legit one. And this certainly is .
just saw something on reddit this morning where a few dudes in a bentley of all cars are targetinng cars at porto and topanga. surfers are easy targets.
Bank Of America fraud protection is tight
to borrow from the political forum, sorry this is happening to you bro