Never again

Review by: Do

My day started out on a good note. I took a mental health day from work, and after the kids left for school, the sun came out, and I was planning for a wonderful day off. :-)

All was going just fine until I decided to check my online banking account.

I just wanted to check my deposit, and what did I see? A charge to my account for $9.06 that didn't belong to me. Now, I know $9.06 isn't a lot of money, but it's my money and no one BUT me (and my husband of course) has the right to take my money without my consent. Bastards.

This scenario is very familiar to me because it happened to me this past December too. Exactly 2 months ago I encountered a similar charge for $9.90 that was deducted from my account for a transaction I did not do. Why do people think they are entitled to money or objects that do not belong to them? Why do they think they should have MY hard earned money, and not me? Maybe if they got off their theiving, lazy, good-for-nothing hoodlum asses, they would make their own money and not have to resort to breaking the law and stealing mine or anyone elses.

So once again I had to call my bank, cancel my bank card, and now wait 7-10 days for a new one. As the bank stated, and only cuz I asked, these damn worthless thieves (I may have embellished that part) steal small amounts like that because most people don't notice them. The bank will probably just reimburse me MY money without an investigation because the amount is so small. And that's exactly why these bastards do it and get away with it time and time again. No one bothers to find out who did it, or how they got the stolen card numbers in the first place. Both transactions were for online stores (spornetzone.in and everingame.com), which means items were shipped somewhere to someone! And given the fact they can trace the card number to a transaction number, which in turn is attached to that certain someone who is using stolen card numbers, you would think someone would do something about it! Nope.

My point for this rant is that I think I know where the problem started. I find it VERY coincidental that I have only ever used the local Redbox kiosk TWICE in my life, and BOTH times I ended up with unauthorized transactions on my bank account within 10 days. The 2nd time only took 3 days. Same kiosk, same bank card, same outcome. So be careful, my friends, of your local Redbox because I have a feeling they are not as safe as they claim to be. I, for one, will never try to save a couple of bucks by using Redbox again...I will spend the extra $4 and order on-demand from my local cable company in the safety of my own home, and have the piece of mind that my bank account is safe.

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me".

>:-(