Also Don’t Steal People’s Credit Cards to Buy Plane Tickets DUH
Betabeat has an update on yesterday’s story about Tech Grifter Shirley Hornstein! Not only did she lie to people on the regular, she also stole their credit cards sometimes? Read all about it in Betabeat’s HOT EMAIL AND GCHAT TRANSCRIPTS detailing her grifts. One thing she did: Bought multiple plane tickets using other people’s credit cards! One particularly strong email from Michael Herzog tells her to turn over stolen funds OR ELSE (“I trust you’ll do the right thing sooner than later”). It really is a great email. I’m bookmarking in case Mike Dang ever uses my credit cards to buy plane tickets so I can shut that thing DOWN. (Obviously this would never happen.) (You see, I don’t have credit cards.) (Also: Mike Dang doesn’t steal.) (Anything except hearts.)
“(anything except hearts)” hahahahaha yes, logan. YES.
@wearitcounts oh how I giggled
@wearitcounts Quite so.
Aw, this made me miss the original hipster grifter.
Happened to me once – I paid a parking ticket from UC Berkeley over the phone with a debit card. About a month later I got a call from my bank asking if I was sure I wanted to overdraft my account to purchase ten plane tickets to Vegas. They stopped payment, I got a new card. No harm to me.
A few days later the itinerary that she attempted to purchase showed up in my snail mail. There was a list of ten names, and a random weird way that my address was written tipped me off that they had gotten it via the DMV. 20 minutes of Nancy Drew work later, I had the campus police on the phone, and the supervisor confirmed that the first name on the itinerary worked there, and had been the person to clear my ticket when I called in to pay it off, and the second name was her boyfriend. He followed up with me a couple of days later and told me that they marched her out in cuffs when she started her shift.
I think this girl might have some Issues.
I hope this lady gets some therapy in prison, because she needs it. There are some real deep-seated issues going on here.