Last week I wrote about how Costco was trying to figure out how to stop the UPS scam from happening. Well it seems their way of solving this was to move away from UPS and go with Fedex. Interestingly enough, when I got a delivery yesterday, the driver asked for my DL and they scanned […]
I had applied for the Synchrony Virgin Red card last month and got a letter in the mail saying it was rejected due to ‘high risk application source.’ I read on Reddit that this is basically IT rejecting the application and that there was no pull done on my credit report. I had applied for […]
This happened last month March 2025. This was a newer Paypal account that I had made. They first sent me $.01 I’m assuming to test to see if I had a Paypal account associated with that email/phone number. I’m 99% positive that they sent it to the phone number on file and not my email […]
I had heard about this scam about a month ago or so – basically a scammer will approach a UPS truck driver and show them the tracking number on their phone and then they’ll have a photoshopped ID with their name to match the package. If the UPS driver hands over the package, then the […]
Venmo used to have an unpublished (?) sending limit of $10K on a rolling 7 day basis. However, now after sending around $4.5K and trying to send another $1.7K, I get an error that says “We’ve paused your payments. We noticed more spending than usual, so we paused things to help keep your account secure.” […]