Massive apologies my little blogg, for having neglected you over the past few days. Life has just been really hectic and trying to upload in the evenings through my phone is so fucking slow I think I’ll die of old age before actually posting something.
Today I am well pissed off…
Went to collect my post today and received a letter from Woolworths. Upon opening it discovered that it was a statement, stating that I owe 5k. I am totally adverse to opening accounts at retail stores and only have my credit card. I have never requested, signed or entertained the idea of opening an account with Wollies, or anyone else for that matter. So I get back to the office and call the head office, the half wit that answered the call could hardly get a word of English out let alone advise me on my problem. She did however instruct me to go through to my nearest branch and speak to customer services.
This I did….
The customer liaison representative that helped me was actually rather sweet so I filled out a letter stating that I did not make the purchases. My question though was how the fuck does somebody get access to 5k worth of credit under my name without any identification or my knowing?
Apparently I had agreed to marketing activities with Standard Bank, something I have subsequently stopped. All of these buggers are in cahoots and regularly swap the information of their customers with one another. As was my case Woolworths received my information, pre-approved my credit and apparently sent the card off to me. This was somehow intercepted and through corrupt people at Woolworths allowed my credit to become available.
The stupidity of the thief…
Apparently the person purchasing the items on my account is a Woolworths employee – the quoted their employee number when making the purchase to receive a discount or something. An internal investigation is now taking place.
Today I am well pissed off…
Went to collect my post today and received a letter from Woolworths. Upon opening it discovered that it was a statement, stating that I owe 5k. I am totally adverse to opening accounts at retail stores and only have my credit card. I have never requested, signed or entertained the idea of opening an account with Wollies, or anyone else for that matter. So I get back to the office and call the head office, the half wit that answered the call could hardly get a word of English out let alone advise me on my problem. She did however instruct me to go through to my nearest branch and speak to customer services.
This I did….
The customer liaison representative that helped me was actually rather sweet so I filled out a letter stating that I did not make the purchases. My question though was how the fuck does somebody get access to 5k worth of credit under my name without any identification or my knowing?
Apparently I had agreed to marketing activities with Standard Bank, something I have subsequently stopped. All of these buggers are in cahoots and regularly swap the information of their customers with one another. As was my case Woolworths received my information, pre-approved my credit and apparently sent the card off to me. This was somehow intercepted and through corrupt people at Woolworths allowed my credit to become available.
The stupidity of the thief…
Apparently the person purchasing the items on my account is a Woolworths employee – the quoted their employee number when making the purchase to receive a discount or something. An internal investigation is now taking place.
posted by AnotherWhiteBoy at 4:23 pm
2 Comments:
Glad to have you back! It never seizes to amaze me how stupid some people are in thinking they will not be caught.
I work for a Private Investigative Company and we deal with these sort of things on a daily basis, the things people do! It's crazy.
I am glad to hear that something is being done about this.
Hey, welcome back.
My friend also recently just had that happen. Except her shadow shopper opened accounts at several department stores so it was chaos all around. She had to go to the cop station & sign an affidavit and and and. The give away was that she lives in Parkhurst. Always has. Not Pretoria like the shadow shopper.
What a bitch it must be. Hope it's all sorted & you don't get any more phantom accounts.
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