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...eeks just saw a program about someone who lost thousands of dollars cos some cyber thief stole his identity!! and then they showed how easy it is for someone to just get 'into' ur computer if u have unlocked network. they only need to park outside ur house! eeek!!! i wont do netbanking at home anymore!!!! scary!!! inhale exhale. im scared. nowhere is safe.
becareful boys n girls! big bad world out there!!!
Zoer and I took an 8 beer drive up north. Good looks to Scan, Zek, Stare, Senk, Sewk, Scien, Klor and Ensu. Try'n to get back to the basics. Post moar flicks.....in a few.
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This be mah photo for the "beggars and liars, gypsies and thieves" collaboration with Cynthia, Gurbir, and Gillian (click the links to see their photos) (go NOW) (NOWWW). I don't actually remember a whole lot about the origin of the collab; it just kind of came out of a really late google+ chat and some Florence lyrics...oh my gosh seriously go to their streams. Right now.
Aaanyways, this is obviously for the 'thieves' portion. I was originally going to steal my friend's cats for stream cameos, but I think identity theft is so interesting because it's such a passive aggressive form of thievery, but potentially one of the most harmful. Also not to mention the additional amount of paranoia gained by victims of all thievery...thieves just suck, bro. Don't become one.
OH I almost forgot to thank my friend Alexa, who accidentally but voluntarily became my assistant for this shoot (or chauffeur, I guess; parking was sort of a big issue...). Thank you, Lex; you were a lifesaver!!!
Hopefully I'll still obtain the cats, though. Cats are one of those things you can't dangle and then deprive people of :)
Personally speaking I really suck at this exchange thing. Partly because the narcissistic graffiti side of me just wants to see the final product without having to do all this drawing and hoop de doo.
With this said the above piece has nothing to do with a premeditated exchange or an obligation to reciprocate. Maybe it could be viewed as secret santa gift.... whatever the case is, Merry Christmas Pesa. Your nom de guerre was the first thing that came to mind because I was unprepared and had no plan today.
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An illustration created for the May FHM magazine to accompany an article about various pieces of technology and social media being used for identity theft and fraud.
so. i went to use my card today at the grocery store and it gave me a "not authorized." so i tried to get cash out of the ATM instead, and again, it wouldnt work. upon calling my bank... we'll call it "mank mof mamerica" they told me my card had been canceled, and a new card had been issued over 2 weeks ago.
so after an hour of so of going ballistic about identity theft, i was able to get someone to tell me that a 3rd party, that the bank couldnt disclose to me, had reported my card compromised. the bank proceeded to cancel my card, without notifying me, and sent me a new one... my old would work for 2 weeks, while they sent me the new one.... the new one never came... so after 2 weeks... my card was just turned off... me knowing nothing of the whole process.
so i dont know who canceled my card, and i have none to use until (god willing) wednesday when they are going to "rush" another replacement card to me.
ps. this is my only financial means... i have no other credit cards. UUUGGGGHHHH!
most frustrating part: the first waste of life that i talked to on the phone actually said this to me after i explained my problem:
her: ok sir, now i have to...ask you some security questions [pause]... to verify you are the card holder... [long pause] ... ok, how may i help you sir?
me: um..... are you gonna ask me the questions?
her: oh.... oh, yeah i will do that now first.
.....please weather hold up tomorrow for the flickr meetup im going to... i need something fun to happen.
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when they come for you?
C.S.I. ATLANTA:
My heros! Detective Little Inez and her partner, Officer AJ, solved the case of The BillyLlama's and my "Identity Theft."
After writing a check for a recent purchase at a major franchise, our check and driver's license information was used to totally wipe out our checking and savings accounts over the course of just a few days. Our gigantic banking institution failed to alert us when checks with the same numbers were being used more than once. The BillyLlama discovered it while viewing his on-line banking. The litany of huge corporate chains that failed to recognize the bogus checks and phony driver's license is unbelievable.
Stay tuned to see what happens to the perps and the names of the corporations involved...
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To get your own Officer AJ... Call 911 and keep your fingers crossed. ;~)
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The molecules of my blood boil and the red rage bubbles upward. The identity thief grabs for 4 new credit cards, 1 new bank account, 1 fraudulent tax refund, and leaves 2 collections agency citations on my perfect credit report. Impersonating me, one never knows what the possessors of my personal information will try next. The only thing certain is that the police assured me they would do nothing to stop it.
(Actually, this was made for a current exhibit and in truth, I never have felt anger/Wut about this at all, but I'm pretending I feel that way to justify this red piece which was to be about the internal life of the artist!)
Solace in the Wind ,Wellington,
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A tossers party ? Mr D.Garrett of the ACT (no real mandate, backed by largely anonymous big business interests) party resigns today for dishonour and another farce ,Sept 2010, Wellington NZ . A personal failure not a system failure as the new first time MP in new possibly over-represented new political party there's double the maverick tendency.
All our smaller parties at present had their genesis within Labour who seem not to be able to brook dissent or difference within its ranks in the past few years; the Alliance, Greens ,Maori and 2-3 essentially one man band, parties.
Even this spawned the right wing Act party, with the petty greed, the mistrust of goverment, the lower the taxes party, dissolve the state, 'dog eat dog' style which arose out of a mid-1980s split within NZ Labour based on monetrist policy during the Reagan / Thatcher dire years.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/4160600/ACT-MP-David-Ga...
Another self-destructive former MP comments...
www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/opinion/4143269/Garrett-circu...
This has nothing to do with MMP or a more democratic parliamentary system NZ adapted when tired of our two party system earlier.
The current government , despite a recession to blame is a right- centre one and has been called the Act-led National minority government (who more repesent big business ,monopolies and traders ).They got in as people "got tired" of the previously fiscally tighter government while still using some good, ?middle way, principles of the previous govt.National itself one of the two major parties nearly disppeared in the polls two elections or 8yrs ago. Both traditional Labour and National were forced to work with more diverse groupings and be more constructive for the country less oppostional; this could take some while to embed yet.
So we need not confuse unethical , unvetted ,small parties and their cronies with an attack on MMP or it's better variant of STV.The NZers are not so gullible yet there's a silly reactive media poll (see below) trying to create this divisive return to less democracy and representation.The NZ Green party by contrast have welded saner influence in a more considered, if a personally often un-rewarded way, thus far , in these times of peak oil etc.
1993 Number of MPs reaches 99; 1996 MMP electoral system is implemented, and there are 120 MPs. (NB:This increase in numbers was not actually required at the time)
MMP – Mixed member proportional representation. In this system some MPs are elected from local constituencies and others are elected from party lists. The number of MPs that a political party has in the House reflects the proportion of the votes that the party gained nationally in the election.
Westminster system – the form of parliamentary democracy established in Britain and adopted in other countries such as New Zealand. It is a centralised form of legislature characterised by the dominance of Cabinet government over Parliament and based on a small number of cohesive political parties (usually two) competing for power and alternating in office. A simple majority in the debating chamber determines who holds power. Since the adoption of MMP, New Zealand has, to some extent, moved away from what had been a strongly developed Westminster system. It was largely invented by the allies after WWII to impose greater democracy and ethics on post war Germany and Italy; so it adapts to the temperament of the national character.Much of western or nordic Europe and Israel have since adopted similar representation.
Normally there is only a 5% population voter threshold in NZ but if a minority party can hold an electoral seat thats becomes a slight anomaly for us , it takes only 3-5 bad apples to spoil the integrity of our newer electoral system.Opposition Labour Issues Spokesperson, Trevor Mallard, said Act had too much power for a party that won only 3.65 per cent of the party vote.They have taken a while to say this.
Do you still support MMP in the wake of Garrett's resignation?
4752 votes since Sep 23rd 2010.
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Oh dear, more of the same? ...the new woman lawyer on the party list who replaces him owns a brothel , (now 'legal' in NZ).
"Character is what you are unobserved".
yahoonz poll
Do you trust the ACT party?
Thanks for voting 11448 votes since Sep 24 2010
Yes 11% 1252 votes
No 85% 9708 votes
Not sure 4% 488 votes
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#LaptopStolenAtStarbucks #StarbucksNeverAgain #StarbucksNuncaMas #Starbucks #StarbucksCoffee #StarbucksPerú #StarbucksLima #Benavides #Lima #Peru #HowardSchultz #Lasino #LasinoSA #ObstructionOfJustice #ObstrucciónDeLaJusticia
ATTENTION MY DEAR AMIGOS Y AMIGAS: I would sincerely appreciate if you would share this post with your friends and family on your social networks so these problems can be resolved and prevented so other people don't have to go through the absolute nightmare I have gone through! Muchas gracias! Abrazos fuertazos! :) :D <3
As I write to you now, the day crossed from ¨night¨ into ¨midnight¨, which also happens to mark the one month anniversary, since my most prized possession, ¨my baby¨, was stolen from #StarbucksPerú ‪#‎Coffee‬ Store on Avenida ‪#‎Benavides‬ 778, in the #Miraflores district in #Lima , #Peru .
You know that store. The store that is also inside the University of ISIL at the cross section of Paseo del Republica.
My ‪#‎laptop‬, also affectionately known as ¨lappy¨, just happened to be the most expensive possession I owned as a human being. ¨What happened?¨, you may ask? It was savagely ripped from the clutches of my fingers while I was sitting down, enjoying a cup of my non-‪#‎organic‬, most likely non-‪#‎Peruvian‬ #Starbucks Coffee (Café Americano to be exact) as I had done for many years, while diving deep into super interesting conversations about Pre-Incan and #Peruvian history with a new friend and possible new business partner as we discussed opportunities on how to help the #indigenous communities in the Peruvian #Andes and the #Amazon jungles to develop #sustainable and environmentally-conscious #economies using eco-tourism as a means to explore the rich cultural traditions of this fascinating country I’ve come to call home: el ‪#‎Perú‬.
It was only later, after our riveting conversation, did I come to realize that my laptop had been silently whisked off to the ¨Never-Neverland¨ of missing laptops where they disappear forever. Never to be never seen again. Usually, never ever.
Ok, so the laptop wasn’t exactly ripped out of my hands. I completely fabricated that part only to demonstrate how this #theft felt on the inside. I was in a state of absolute shock honestly. It was as if my #heart and #soul was ripped out of my chest (assuming that’s where the soul resides of course).
As strange as this may sound, it was like a family member dying. My entire life was on that laptop. All of the projects I have worked on since I arrived to #Guatemala more than 3 years ago today to teach indigenous #Mayan #communities how to build their very own ¨#Earthship¨ homes made with #RecycledMaterials . A life altering experience thanks to the U.S. non-profit organization #LongWayHome and the indisputable visionary and super weird genius of #MichaelReynolds of #EarthshipBiotecture .
All of my photos I have taken in the last three years, travelling and working in ‪#‎LatinAmerica‬ from ‪#‎Mexico‬ to ‪#‎Guatemala‬, from #CostaRica and to ‪#‎Columbia‬, and finally in ¨el Perú.¨ They were photos that can´t be replaced but I will never forget them.
I realize backing up my data is my responsibility and that my data will probably never be recovered, I somehow, for some reason, miss my laptop even more than all of those photos.
He was my travel buddy as I made my ¨Run for the border¨ in the opposite direction of conventional wisdom. He came with me as followed my heart and swam south and waded through the incredibly beautiful and breath-taking rivers and lakes of ‪#‎CentralAmerica‬ and ‪#‎SouthAmerica‬, or what I also call the ¨#LatinAmericaDream¨.
If I were #Maverick of ¨#TopGun¨, my lappy was definitely my ¨#Goose¨.
He was my co-pilot when I was offered new projects to work on #Permaculture design projects like the 5 family Eco-village in ‪#‎Pachacamac‬, Peru, or creating and designing #Environmental #Campaigns for the #schools of Peru that teach Peruvian #children how to take care of ¨‪#‎Pachamama‬¨ with their hands in the dirt, mud in their hair, and smiles on their faces.
Yep. My ¨lappy¨ was the best.
One month later, after my laptop was stolen from Starbucks, while sitting next to my feet, it appears that I am now a victim of ‪#‎IdentityTheft‬ as well. Only two days ago someone attempted to fraudulently access my bank account in the #UnitedStates AND was even able to get past the security authentication of my bank, over the phone, with either my social security number, my bank account number, and or my pin number.
Good thing I’m broke and don’t have a penny to my name, otherwise this entire situation could have been even more devastating than it already still is.
It has now taken #Starbucks exactly ONE MONTH for them to deliver the security cam video from this store to the police so the ¨investigation¨ can begin since my laptop was stolen on May 2nd.
Pardon my language, but are you fucking kidding me? How can justice ever be served in this manner?
In #LatinAmerica , where there is not a chance in hell it would be recovered? Is this that ¨Great and Premium Executive Service¨ Starbucks keeps proclaiming in their advertisements? Is Starbucks really taking care of their clients when they deliberately obstruct justice after you’ve been robbed in board day light in their store?
That’s not only bad service. It’s criminal.
So after much frustration in dealing with the absolutely atrocious customer service of Starbucks and their management, after speaking with a very tenured business professional and a damn good friend, I decided to write #HowardSchultz , the #CEO of Starbucks, a small but brief letter of what transpired and my promise to never, never ever, set foot inside another Starbucks again until these problems are resolved.
I also happened to find the email addresses and phone numbers of almost the entire Board of Directors of Starbucks, the Executive Vice Presidents of Starbucks Latin America and many other divisions, and I copied them in the same email I sent to Howard, the CEO.
Thanks, #Google .
Here is what I wrote:
Dear Mr. Howard Schlutz,
Let me first begin by thanking you for taking a quick moment out of your busy day to read this letter. Most of us have very busy lives to attend to, and I am no different. Let me briefly introduce myself. I am a U.S. citizen currently working and living in Lima, Peru, where many of your stores are located. Like you, I came from a blue collar family and was the first person in my family to receive a college degree, and after receiving my degree in Finance, I worked for some of the biggest companies in the United States, including Centex, Dell, and IBM, to name a few. I now own and operate my own consultancy company in Peru and I have been working with some of the largest companies in Peru for the last two years, including companies such as Repsol and Graña y Montero. When I need to meet with any of my clients, I tell them, ¨meet me in my office¨, warmly referring to one of your Starbucks stores as our meeting place of business.
I am certain that you are well aware that you and your company have revolutionized the social meeting place for business professionals, and others alike, which is why I have felt so comfortable in inviting some of my most important clients to meet in your stores.
However, as of May 2nd 2016, I no longer have confidence in the bringing my clients to your stores, nor do I feel safe going to your stores as I was robbed in broad daylight in your Starbucks store located at Avenida Benavides 778, Miraflores, Lima, Peru, (Store STB-37), which resulted in my very expensive laptop being stolen while it was in my possession and thousands of dollars of time and work lost that I will never get back. On top of an already traumatizing situation, your management staff at this store, Maria Casteñeda, Jardani Atoche, Paulo Villegas, and Ana Lenguz, have completely ¨mis-managed¨ this incident from the very beginning. Not only did they refused to let myself and the police to see the video immediately after the theft took place to identify the thief, they have offered absolutely nothing in return for my stolen laptop – Not even not even a free coffee. Additionally, this store has not one security guard in it where many of your stores in Lima do because of previous robberies.
The very reason I visited your store(s) every day, sometimes 3 times a day, for the last 3 years was because of the environment you and your company have created at Starbucks. I felt safe. Safe enough to bring my clients and discuss business in your stores. I keep all of my receipts from Starbucks for tax purposes. After reviewing my all of my transactions with your company, I was spending between $80 and $100 USD a month in your stores. Is this how Starbucks treats its loyal customers who have helped make Starbucks the billion dollar company it is today?
To resolve the problem, I need my laptop to be replaced equal or greater in value. Attached are copies of the police report concerning the theft that occurred in your store, the complaint filed with the Peruvian Government Consumer Rights organization Indecopi, and the receipts of my purchases at Starbucks to demonstrate my loyalty to your company.
I look forward to your reply and a resolution to my problem. I will wait 3 business days before seeking third-party assistance. You may contact me at my email address or by my Peruvian phone number.
Sincerely,
Justin Lee Henson
The screen capture photo attached to this post is the email I received tonight from ¨Kurt¨ of the Executive Office of Howard Schlutz, the CEO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Starbucks… or what is more commonly referred to as the ¨Armed Services¨ division of Starbucks. Have a look at the bottom of Kurt’s signature to see what I’m talking about.
I have given them three days to act and they only have a day and half before I proceed with ¨Third Party Assistance¨. Wish me luck! :)
No te preocupes hermanitos y hermanitas! Voy a tener lo mismo post en castellano mañana! Buenas noches! :)
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-508
IDENTITY THEFT AND TAX FRAUD: IRS Needs to Update Its Risk Assessment for the Taxpayer Protection Program
Note: This figure's numbering shows the order in which events occur when fraudsters successfully commit IDT refund fraud.
Life is about change, you can not live without changing everyday in ways you never knew. Every experience changes you. These leaves are changing from green to red....
They are like my temper right now, I am red and flaming. Someone in Austria hacked mine and other debit cards from another business. Yesterday they wiped our account out 2 hrs after my check was deposited, bounced cable, electric, car insurance, locked my whole account out, untraceable, unrecoverable took us down to $1.94 for next 2 weeks.... it gets worse but I can barely contain myself so lets just suffice to say that if I could meet this person I would burn in hell forever for what my brain tells me I would do. They are checking farther cause it's possible identity theft also... just what I need, a bunch of me's causing more crap for me.... none of you would like the very bipolar psycho bitch I am restraining within myself tonight.
thanks for letting me vent though....
Inputting a PIN into an ATM machine.
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Obviously I didn't take this photo (and the next couple). But I wanted to showcase my Halloween costume which, as you'll note, is quite apropos.
Goldilocks & the Three Bears: A Retelling
For a moment it seemed that they had just come back from one of their traditional pre-breakfast walks, for as Papa Bear, Mama Bear, & Baby Bear entered their home they immediately spotted their three porridge bowls waiting for them on the table. But when they came to the table they saw that the bowls contained only the hard, congealed remains of porridge, with bits of bacon fat & the rind of a grapefruit that was beginning to get moldy. The dishes were surrounded by a messy pile of mail, some of which had been torn open — their private mail! — what looked like all their mail since they'd departed on their Black Forest vacation!
"Someone's been reading my bank statements!" bellowed Papa Bear. And indeed, there were his last two bank statements, with arcane calculations scrawled on each one.
"Someone's been reading my mama's letters to me!" growled Mama Bear. And indeed, here was a letter from Grandma Bear, stained with with drops of orange juice & wipes of bacon grease.
"Someone's been reading my National Geographic!" wailed Baby Bear, "and scribbled it all up!" And indeed, every picture in the latest issue of Baby Bear's magazine had been scribbled on with a black magic marker.
It got worse. The place had been trashed. Papa Bear's handsome wooden armchair had been carved with graffiti. The cushion on Mama Bear's chair had been ripped open & its stuffing strewn about the living room. Baby Bear's chair had been broken into pieces.
But there was also what looked to be a brand new flatscreen TV & a DVD player that proved, when Mama Bear opened it, to have Season 2, Disc 1 of "Battlestar Galactica" still in it. But where had these things come from? That's when Papa Bear discovered that some of the opened mail was from credit card companies, for cards he had never applied for. But somebody had — & in his name!
"Someone has stolen my identity!" bellowed Papa Bear.
"Someone has stolen my carrots!" growled Mama Bear, staring out the window at her little side garden.
"Someone has stolen my Xbox!" wailed Baby Bear, "& snorted it all up their nose!" And indeed, there was a cracked mirror from the bathroom lying next to Baby Bear's broken chair, & on it were a pawn shop ticket & a vague line of white dust left over from their housebreaker's cocaine.
Papa Bear was just heading for the master bedroom to see what damage had been done there, when a young bleary-eyed human female with bedhead stumbled out of Baby Bear's room. "What in hell's all the racket?" she grumbled.
That must have been when she really woke up. For suddenly her eyes popped wide. She gave each of them a startled, no, a desperate glance, & with just as much desperation she lunged to the table, grabbed up a grapefruit spoon, & darted over to Baby Bear, pulling her close with the serrated points of the grapefruit spoon pressed against the diminutive bruin's neck.
"It's Goldilocks!" Papa Bear & Mama Bear exclaimed in sudden fear. For everyone knew about Goldilocks & her criminal gang.
"That's right, it's Goldilocks!" the young woman snarled, "& if you care about your little red bear'n here, you'll toss over your car keys right now!"
There was nothing for it: either give in to Goldilocks' demand, or watch her eviscerate Baby Bear's tender neck with the grapefruit spoon. Papa Bear tossed over the keys, & they watched helplessly as Goldilocks backed out the door, still holding tight to their sweet little, terrified little cub.
* * *
The police caught up with Goldilocks in Big City some miles away. After the shootout, as an ambulance came to take the critically injured criminal away, police working the scene found poor little Baby Bear, lying unconscious in a gutter. She had wounds in her left side & hand: she'd been caught in the crossfire.
Happily, Baby Bear is expected to make a full recovery.
Papa & Mama Bear have filed suit against the Big City Police Department for endangering their child & their 2006 Ford Explorer in the shootout.
For her part, Goldilocks was tried for her numerous crimes & sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
Asked to comment on the sentence, the recovering Baby Bear told the Big City Daily News: "It's just right."
Today I found out my identity was stolen. I always thought this is something you hear on the 60 minutes or 20/20...it will never happen to me.
This morning Verizon called me to verify a more than 800 dollars order under my social security number and credit card, and I also found out there are some online order was placed under my credit card.
I spent all morning on the phone with credit card companies, banks, and credit bureau trying to do damage control. So far I am able to stop all the charges on the credit cards I know of..putting alerts to all three credit companies, stop companies to ship whatever order I didn't placed.
Many thanks to:
Max F. Williams' texture
geebee2007's Mask
What better victim of ID theft than Paris Hilton and her infamous Sidekick. I also featured the stolen identities of Bill Gates and a selection of my friends.
Give an identity thief some plastic teeth and it makes him EXTRA scary.
Bonus points for anyone who gets the Les Miserables reference...
My beloved scooter, a Honda Elite, 250 cc, powerful enough to get on the highway got stolen exactly 1 year ago from my parking slot outside my home. I miss my scooter!
Especially now with Spring weather and so much beauty all over town. Riding this scooter was a lot of fun, for Sumo too, who on occasion would ride along in my special carpet shoulder bag slung across my body. He would sit on my right thigh and snap at the air and never show any concern about speed or bumps or other dogs or anything. In fact having lost my dreams and trouble seeing the future, I could see myself on a scooter with a dog! So returning from Switzerland where I had eyed so many, I noticed the sign up on Trader Joe's bulletin board for this scooter for $1000. The doctor's wife did not like scootering around town, bless her heart. In fact I was ready to kiss her feet in gratitude, and told her so!
Sometimes I would just go hunting for images on my scooter with my Nikon. While my VW van was on his 3. engine installation (2 new ones installed by 2 reputable mechanics failed for some mysterious reasons) I used this scooter to go to work even during winter, a challenge for sure.
The silver lining is that I use my bike more, that I did not end up living on a hill and on the land I had bought with big dreams - and then sold, for a profit. So, I really don't need a scooter and bicycling is surely better for my health! But the scooter was so much fun! Replacing a scooter with a less powerful, newer version would cost double to triple or more of what I payed originally.
Don't be fooled by the VW sign, the first owner must have been a lover of VWs.
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
So my brazilian identity thief has resurfaced (after me getting "her" kicked off flickr, myspace, and orkut)...
(feel free to go harass her)
I figured that since the badass banner "she" had made is of
ME, its as good as mine :)
and since she steals all my photos off of flickr, perhaps this can go out as a little message to "her" - STEAL SOMEONE ELSE'S IDENTITY AND LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!
anyone speak portuguese? I'm curious to know what it says :)
for The Rogue Players, we had to copy cat an icon of someone's icon and make it our own for a day. so i picked the one person who makes me smile the most on flickr: kathryn.
enjoy this tribute.
did you know HOW HARD IT WAS TO TRY AND recreate YOUR EYES. my eyes arent big enough!!!!!! >.<
anyways dear. this one is for you.
TRP: copy cat icon/identity theft
Project 365: day 56
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This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-119
IDENTITY THEFT AND TAX FRAUD: Enhanced Authentication Could Combat Refund Fraud, but IRS Lacks an Estimate of Costs, Benefits and Risks
Note: The figure above is shown for illustrative purposes; the actual distribution of IDT versus noncompliant returns from legitimate taxpayers is unknown. To develop the magnitude measures above, we divided IRS's highest and lowest AUR category estimate by the estimate IRS chose in filing season 2013. Using these two extremes would likely result in too broad of a range in IDT refunds paid estimates.