Assault - Ongoing Impact Summary

  • PTSD

  • Ongoing financial fraud

  • Legal

  • Fraud Attempts on Stolen Credit Cards and Bank Accounts Starting Before Being Woken Up (12:04 AM First Fraud Text)

    • It took me a long time to realize how calculated and planned the assault was from the very beginning. It wasn’t until I had the nerve to look at the limited (only a few camera were working) surveillance videos, that I could see the skilled approach from people who had done to this to many others before. “You met your match.” was one recorded assaulter’s threat.

    • I am scared he was right as nobody will help or investigate or even follow the complex details. All the work I do, day after day, now hundreds of hours, has had no forward results. Where most people would just give up, I am doing everything I can to stay in my home and recover, but it is a struggle beyond any struggle in my life up to now. I’ve lost nearly every friend as far as I can tell (and certainly I’m a contributor, as I often use the analogy that these situations are a dance, and I’m one of the dancers, as it goes off rails or off the track or whatever.

  • Robbery of Wallet Cash, Jewelry, Keys, Billfold, AirPods, etc.

  • Ongoing Fraud Attempts on Credit Cards, Bank Accounts, Continuing to the present

    • Cards are constantly being shut down, reissued, then another attempt goes through somehow. Why can’t the companies stop this?

    • I learned early on is that if one calls the fraud department, they will provide much more information that can be used as evidence. If one just says it is a fraudulent charge, no such information is shared.

    • If I don’t call, the information is not shared by the companies involved. They may investigate more, but so far the fraud attempts have been reimbursed. I currently have around $800 that I have been charged, that still needs to be contested.

    • The calls are time consuming and emotionally draining.

      • The last Citi fraud investigator, after escalating to a supervisor, would not provide her name or identification. All she would provide is, ‘Amy’ as if there is only one ‘Amy’ in the well over 100,000 employees at Citi.

    • In talking with a person in the fraud department one can often learn many things:

      • Often a name is available.Two transactions were under the names of the two sisters of one of the assailants.

      • The exact times and number of times attempted is provided: so a transaction might be attmpted three or four times minutes apart, over over midnight.

      • The country of origin (Jordan, Turkey, Amir — Brooklyn Park, MN Target, etc.) is provided, so when it fails in USA, it is attempted from other countries within minutes of the first USA attempt.

      • The website it was attempted on is often known. Even the merchandise or service purchased is known.