Stahlseele wrote:Starmaker wrote:Fuck, I got robbed.
Seriously, I had just started climbing out of debt and had all the money I had paid toward that debt stolen through a cell phone instant payment option that I had been opted into by the bank without my knowledge.
I don't want to live. Fuck this shit.
what?
how?
you had paid the money already right? so it as gone already?
I was paying off a HUEG card debt. It's now back where it started.
Young Russians love monopoly money such as phone credit and other shit that might as well be dogecoin where its liquidity, usability and security is concerned. There is no security, and I mean
none whatsoever; a scammer can send you a text message, then claim you entered the code they sent you in that message on their site, claim it constituted you opting in for a paid service and demand (your) money from the cellphone provider on those grounds. The cellphone provider will pay up because
of course it will, they all do, and keep about 40% as a transaction fee.
Obviously, I hate monopoly money with the fury of a billion suns, and I never applied for an account and I never paid for anything except phone services with my phone balance. And yet, several times, such as when my cards were being reissued, I noticed they had signed me up for those monopoly money systems even though I specifically didn't tick the "please sign me up" box. I had to visit the office to get that shit cancelled and the asshole tellers would be like "calm the fuck down you thankless hysterical technophobic nerd bitch, we opted you in for your own good, dont you have anything better to whine about but okay we're gonna cancel, shut up already you twat".
So today I got paid, looked up my card balance to find out how much I had to set aside for debt repayment and saw it was
empty, cleaned out through the mobile phone quick payment system (that I never signed up for), then presumably converted to monopoly money and to cash. 15 months of trying to climb out of debt went down the drain.