I got this email this morning and let me tell you, this put me in a bad mood for a few hours. I also thought this was karma from yesterday’s post. When I finally dug into the accounts that got these emails, it turns out these accounts were already dead. They died 6 months ago […]

I just recently noticed that the Capital One email offers now say ‘Single-use’ in the upper right corner. See below screenshot: I went back through my emails and it seems they started doing this back on probably July 1, 2025. Here’s an email back in June. Look at the upper right. SO FAR, it doesn’t […]

I really should stop assuming none of the new dotted vanilla VGCs are tamper-proof. So what happened? Well, I had recently bought a lot of VGC at my local grocery store and opened up the packages and piled them up on my desk waiting to be activated at https://balance.mastercardgiftcard.com. It’s because that stupid ass web […]

This post is intentionally vague because if I give any specifics, then the unicorn would be slaughtered dead. Anyway, about a month ago, I called up a CU that I had a credit card with, asking about a higher CL for the card. At the end of the call, I asked, ‘Oh by the way, […]

This play lasted a lot longer than I had expected. I think most people knew about Paypal Bill Pay; it wasn’t a unicorn or anything. We could see the cracks start to form back in November when AMEX was removed. Then shockingly it came back but then died again a few weeks later. Then in […]