On 2008-12-26, Ned Simmons wrote:
The bank manager told me, based only on what she's seen locally, that
there seemed to be an uptick in CC and debit card fraud recently.

I had a story seemingly just out of movie "Idiocracy". I subscribed to
a sprint "wireless broadband" service 2 months ago. Supplied a credit
card also.

Today out of the blue I received a email notice from them that my
account was delinquent and they are about to refer me to a collection
agency and that the sky is falling.

The email did not provide any phone number and said "dial *4 on your
sprint phone". Which I never had.

So I called them. Asked how come I never received any bills. Turns out
that "I was not set up for billing".

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