Tracking Down a Credit Card Thief

somebody stole my credit card and we're. going to track them down hi I'm Samuel. Harris from Mississippi Good Mythical. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning this. episode is brought to you by SM makers. of amazing apps for your iPhone and. Android device including the magic piano. turn your smartphone or tablet into a.

magied piano and don't forget to enter. the ongoing my hair song contest using. the sing karaoke app details in the. description we're also going to feature. one of those current entries at the end. of this episode I got a phone call. recently from my credit card company and. this isn't the first time this has. happened I have an ongoing phone. relationship with my credit card they. wanted to increase your limit no they. wanted to make sure that the charges on.

my. account as fishy as they seemed were by. me okay and in the past say yep FR I I. spend in fishy ways but it's me it's me. and so I get a and sometimes it's just a. message where I have to press one and. say yes I made that purchase I made that. purchase I don't know exactly what. triggers it it's different things I. can't it's not dollar amount it's not. any one thing I can't it's an algorithm. it's an algorithm let's just say that. good old. algorithm he's a friend of mine that's.

funny link you could use that in like a. third grade class I could teaching them. about keeping good credit after after we. fail at this and you go be a sub. somewhere in third grade yeah algorhythm. hello class I'm your sub for today ALG. Rhythm and I'm going Alm I'm going to. teach you about credit card fraud tell. us about what happened to you so this. particular time they call and it's a. real guy and he's like not a robot y. he's like I got some you know potential. charges I want to run by you um he said.

here just just one this time. $5.25 blah blah blah blah blah and I'm. like yeah okay yeah that's fine I had. something to do I was in here working I. stepped outside did he say where it was. very focused and he was just like I was. like yeah that's fine and then he threw. out there he said it's in New York and. it it was uh August yeah August last. month so and then I perked up I was like. well I haven't been in New. York in the last month and I said that. to the guy and he was like I'd already. said okay so he was like Moving on but.

then I he was like hold on are you. disputing the charge and I was like well. I haven't been in New York he said well. it was like a dispute to me he said the. I was like yes I'm disputing he said the. card was swiped whoa do you still have. your cards in your possession cuz my. wife also has one I said yes we still. have the cards in our possession has. your wife been to New York no she better. not have been this is getting fishier. every every second no she has. not so this $5 which seems. inconsequential and I guess that's kind. of the strategy kind of sneaking under.

the radar my credit card company caught. it kudos to City Bank I'll just go ahead. and say kudos to City Bank thank you Mr. dude from City Bank we'll call you ALG. Rhythm yeah it was the algorithm it. didn't the dude had nothing to do put a. stop he immediately stops my credit card. he say I got to send you a form in the. email you got to fill that out and you. know just to say hey I definitely didn't. do this spending whatever so I don't. have to pay it of course yeah you know I. was could be out of $5 I waited a few. days cuz it was just $5 but then I go in.

to fill out the form and I looked at my. my spending online and lo and. behold there is not only one $5 charge. there are I'd say there's 23 charges. here A whole page worth a whole page. worth of charges I I filled out this. form here all it was easy because. anything in New York I knew I ain't been. to no New York yeah it makes it simple. and it just made it simple but I had to. write all these things down in order to. submit the form to say I'm not paying.

this and I don't know if you've ever had. anything stolen from you you can let us. know in the comments especially. something it they didn't steal my. identity per se but they stole my credit. card number you wasn't posing as you I. assume well in a way they were I assume. they took my number put it on another. credit card that was swipeable and then. started spending like there was no. tomorrow as you'll see in a second well. maybe somehow somebody superimposed my. my information on another physical card. since I and that can happen that can.

happen in a gas pump it can happen at a. restaurant with like a crooked waiter it. there's lots of different ways that it. could happen never happened to me you. know I felt violated I stay out of fishy. places but then it started to occur to. me there are people on the internet who. will pay good money to know what your. spending habits are I now know who my. thief's what my thief's spending habits. are and I've written them down and told. City Bank I wasn't paying for them using. this information I think right now we. should be able to not only profile but. track this person down we know he's in.

New York I know that narrows it down I. know the specific restaurants and and. establishments that he's spending using. on digits like we're going to we're. going to track him down You' be my Pi. I'll run this by you you people at home. if you want to Aid Us in the comments or. if you know the guy bring him forward. I'm giving a reward of a shout out in a. subsequent good mythical morning let's. hear the charges here on August 23rd he. or she spent $284.88. at Marshalls which is a clothing store.

you can get a lot of stuff at Marshalls. for that much money I guess they thought. like get a Nike shoe with a swoosh going. the wrong way you know my mom used to. get us I'd say half of our Marshalls is. the one that something's wrong with the. stuff right yeah yeah like here son I've. got you a pair of jeans but there's not. a zipper you're just going to have to. work it out or add one yourself I would. recommend I guess since he or she got my. car it's like well the first thing I'm. going to do is I'm going to I'm going to. get some nice threads and then I'm going.

to spend some more money. Ines and fast food. establishments uh that was that was. August 23rd August 24th no spending just. trying on the clothes from take the. daysh right checking out that then. August 25th. $21.50 at R Aid Pharmacy and then. $15.35 cents at a stopping shop he. really stopped and he really shopped or. she you know it could be either one. females don't commit that many that was.

all on the 25th then the 26th this. definitely sounds like a dude going to. Marshalls first and then going to the. stopping shop on the 26th spent $14 at. ad Buffalo then turned around and spent. $66.50 at the same place and then turned. around and spent $5.25 at the same place. ad Buffalo that's a it's a it's a fast. food place that serves buffalo wings but. they he or she did it three different. times and you're saying he so he did it. three different times this is definitely.

a male now he's getting buffalo wings. what woman gets buffalo wings and that's. all he got that day he's like I need. more wings and I need more Wings he went. down each time though I think it's. because you didn't want he didn't want. to press his luck or you know I spent a. lot of money at Marshalls and at Stop. and Shop I want to stay under the radar. here okay all right he likes Wings all. right this is I'm putting together a. profile here that's he got Wings three. times that's all he did he rested and. just had indigestion the rest of the day. on the 27th the next morning he gets up. spends $11 at Walgreens who and acid an.

acid because of the Wings that's I mean. that's that's a good over-the-counter an. acid then he goes back into Walgreens. spends $25 more dollars right after that. anti-diarrheal medicine I got to get. some of that too same day he uh oh not. learning his lesson heads over to. popey's chicken and biscuits well the. anti-diarrheal have kicked in and now. he's like I got to reup the Annie on pop. 61 bucks at po that's a family meal I. mean that's like tailgate time you know. what I'm saying you could feed 25 people. Popeyes for 61 bucks he he's like.

outside he's like hey I got a stolen. credit card and who wants some. chicken okay what else all right and. then that's all the next day he gets up. goes to Walgreens four more times $4 $47. $31 $17 multip multiple family members. are having digestion issues because of. the previous day everybody ate at. Popeyes and now everybody needs help so. and everybody needs something different. you need Black Flag you need.

what is black no is it Backdraft what is. the what is the the la if you when you. take Black Flag you get the. Backdraft black same day he spends $24. then Boop goes right back in spends $34. at Maas Deli grocery I think it's like. Mayas Mayas Mayas Del he wanted some. Latin food and then he's then he just. went to sleep cuz he can't just he can't. get enough this is my favorite purchase. next morning gets up first thing goes to. Walgreens again spends 99 like you know.

I need to I need to Pace myself I have I. have who knows what the credit limit is. here I'm just going to go in and get. like what a pack of G what did you say. gummy bears you think he could get gummy. bear I think he was buying another. credit card they sell them at Walgreens. stolen credit cards that's a mystery 99. Cents at Walgreens he he leaves there. and goes back to the Mias Deli grocery. spends $15 $12 I think he's having a. cookout and then he says you know what. I've really got to I've really got to.

improve my eating habits I'm going to. Mosey on over and spend $61 at White. Castle and then turn around spend $29 at. White he spent a hundred bucks at White. Castle in one day do you have many. little Burgers you can get a lot this. man is feeding multiple he's probably. feeding multiple families maybe you. should just let him keep your card and. you'll be like donating to a to a family. in need again I just think he's going. into the white cou he's like hey hey hey. everybody in here it's on me you know. that's my liong dream the first round of.

little burgers are on me well who is is. this Harold aumar is what I want to know. who goes to White Castle and blows 100. bucks well who go who goes back the next. day and gets $20 more next day's like I. didn't get enough I got to get some more. of those little Burgers what else do. they have nothing okay I'll just take 20. more of the little burgers and then. finally he wraps It Up by going that was. earlier that's that was when I cut him. off he went to no right a that was from. earlier date so that's what happened so. who are we looking for people what's the. summary all right I got a theory New.

York this all happened in New York and. Brooklyn I could tell or Jamaica which. it's Jamaica New York which is like. Jamaica Queens so he's in the Brooklyn. Jamaica Queens areas of New York eating. a bunch of fast food who do you. know that loves hot wings you think I. your. son who do you know that loves. Marshals at least did at one point my. mom. my mom who do you know that loves.

Popeye's Chicken and White Castle. burgers and who do you know that likes. to get lots of little ointments and. creams and stuff from various. pharmaceutical stores well it sounds. like either a kid or a grandma I don't. know who. me are you kidding me it's you this this. is me this now listen this is what you. would do if you took my card I do not. recall you did not go to New York in. your right mind you think that you took. my card went to New.

York I believe it's possible I mean what. we doing on this is look at my actual. credit card statement it looks a lot. like this I take a lot of trips buffalo. wings. drugstores and White. Castle all right so it's solved if you. if you're New York area I don't I don't. recall this at all let me know I don't. recall it but I'm saying it could have. happen I mean it was just a couple of. days what were you doing at this. time the 23rd through the 28 did you see.

me on these dates I think so I me sure I. saw you the course of a week I mean I. haven't gone that long without seeing. you oh somebody L like me okay if you. can help us solve this mystery I I. appreciate you uh being willing to I was. ready to confess it could have you did. confess but it was like the out of mind. you like you had a concussion like you. fell down in the White Castle and had a. concussion and somebody just drugged you. back across the country and then put my. credit card back in my pocket when I go. to White Castle I go all out I'm gonna. call him and say oh okay it's me it's my.

friend well this is a little bit like. yesterday's prompt uh we're gonna treat. Jason like a monster as opposed to. treating you like a monster without your. glasses on I don't know if you noticed. but there's been some creature like. behind the camera snickering at times. and seeming to be chopping at the bit to. edit this episode but now that I look. into his eyes he doesn't seem human. seems. monstrous you have it oh my goodness. look at that Tong.

a gross it's monstrous a kill it kill it. kill it it's a monster this doesn't work. anymore we need to charge it up yes get. him get him get it get it get it your. hair go. your ha goes out your hair goes we. interrup the course of this song to. bring you an important message there are. many weighted decisions you must make in. life.