A Story Of What Verizon Really Cares About... (as well as the incompitence of Lane County Oregon's law enforcement)
source: http://www.lanecounty.org/Departments/Sheriff/Pages/default.aspx
I know I have not been online for a few weeks, and there is a minor and major reason as to why. The minor reason is because I am taking some very... compressed, classes that take a standard 10 week quarter and compress it into 4 weeks. It makes for some very intense reading and homework. The major reason I will get at in a bit, but before that, I have a story I would like to share.
On Friday, June the 10th of this year, a car was broken into at a little park in Lane County Oregon called Zumwalt Park. The couple who drove the car were out on a walk with their dogs when this happened, and returned to the car to realize that the passenger side window had been smashed in and the lady's purse had been removed from the vehicle. The couple called the sheriff to inform the local law enforcement of what had happened and the dispatch informed the couple that they would send a deputy out to meet them at their home and report what had happened. So the couple got into the car, the gentlemen driving and the lady in the back with the dogs to keep them from from getting in the passenger seat that was covered in shattered glass.
Lo and behold, when the couple arrived home, their front door was unlocked and slightly ajar. A quick inspection of the inside of the house showed that only two things were missing in the household. Two laptop computers. The thieves who stole her purse from the car had learned her address from her drivers license, and had used the keys that were in her purse to open the door. Again, the couple contacted the sheriffs office, this time to inform them of a burglary. The sheriffs office told them that they would be out to investigate the crime in about an hour.
The lady spent about three hours canceling the credit cards that were in her stolen purse and the gentlemen called the sheriffs again after an hour and a half went by with no deputy, and again after another hour and a half.
It was not until the next day, around noon, that the deputy made it to the residence to take a report of the crime and the damages done. By this time the lady's credit card companies had called to inform her that one of her credit cards had been used to purchase a little over $100 worth of a prepaid phone card online through Verizon. When the lady was made aware of this, she called up Verizon to inform them that the phone card had been purchased with her stolen credit card and that she desired to know who had purchased the phone card.
After confirming that her credit card had indeed been used to purchase a phone card, and after confirming that the card had been reported stolen, Verizon informed the lady that they could not give her any information about the purchaser of the phone card without a name and a phone number despite the fact that the phone card was obviously purchased with her stolen credit card.
A short while later, the credit card company informed the lady that her card had also been used, before she canceled it, at precisely 8:30PM at a Shell gas station near downtown Eugene which has video surveillance. The lady called the Shell station to find out the the video is all digital, is kept on a server in Ohio, and that video is only kept for 30 days before it is erased. She also found out that the request to retrieve the video must come from a law enforcement official. On the following Monday, the couple informed the sheriffs office of the video which could very well have the vehicle and license plate number of the criminals.
To the date of this post, the sheriffs office of Lane County has yet to do squat about retrieving the surveillance video or pressuring Verizon to release any of the information of the criminal who purchased the phone card that was worth over $100.
This is where the major reason of why I have not been online for a while comes in. I am the gentleman of that couple, and my computer was one of the two stolen from our own home. We have been harassing the sheriffs office to do their job, but we would be appreciative to others who might want to call the sheriffs department's dispatch, which is non-emergency, and join in the harassment. The number can be found on the bottom of this page.
http://www.lanecounty.org/Departments/Sheriff/Pages/default.aspx
Please use the General Information or Non Emergency numbers.
As for Verizon, we'd appreciate any harassment towards them that we can get. If you are a customer, please e-mail or call them and let them know how you feel about a company that is so interested in short term profits that it will protect the information of criminals in order to secure the business of criminals. And if you are not a customer, please do it anyways just to harass them a bit.
I thank you for any support you can give, and for any of you who might want to help "motivate" the Lane County Sheriff or Verizon, I encourage you to have fun, but remember to keep it at least somewhat civil.
On Friday, June the 10th of this year, a car was broken into at a little park in Lane County Oregon called Zumwalt Park. The couple who drove the car were out on a walk with their dogs when this happened, and returned to the car to realize that the passenger side window had been smashed in and the lady's purse had been removed from the vehicle. The couple called the sheriff to inform the local law enforcement of what had happened and the dispatch informed the couple that they would send a deputy out to meet them at their home and report what had happened. So the couple got into the car, the gentlemen driving and the lady in the back with the dogs to keep them from from getting in the passenger seat that was covered in shattered glass.
Lo and behold, when the couple arrived home, their front door was unlocked and slightly ajar. A quick inspection of the inside of the house showed that only two things were missing in the household. Two laptop computers. The thieves who stole her purse from the car had learned her address from her drivers license, and had used the keys that were in her purse to open the door. Again, the couple contacted the sheriffs office, this time to inform them of a burglary. The sheriffs office told them that they would be out to investigate the crime in about an hour.
The lady spent about three hours canceling the credit cards that were in her stolen purse and the gentlemen called the sheriffs again after an hour and a half went by with no deputy, and again after another hour and a half.
It was not until the next day, around noon, that the deputy made it to the residence to take a report of the crime and the damages done. By this time the lady's credit card companies had called to inform her that one of her credit cards had been used to purchase a little over $100 worth of a prepaid phone card online through Verizon. When the lady was made aware of this, she called up Verizon to inform them that the phone card had been purchased with her stolen credit card and that she desired to know who had purchased the phone card.
After confirming that her credit card had indeed been used to purchase a phone card, and after confirming that the card had been reported stolen, Verizon informed the lady that they could not give her any information about the purchaser of the phone card without a name and a phone number despite the fact that the phone card was obviously purchased with her stolen credit card.
A short while later, the credit card company informed the lady that her card had also been used, before she canceled it, at precisely 8:30PM at a Shell gas station near downtown Eugene which has video surveillance. The lady called the Shell station to find out the the video is all digital, is kept on a server in Ohio, and that video is only kept for 30 days before it is erased. She also found out that the request to retrieve the video must come from a law enforcement official. On the following Monday, the couple informed the sheriffs office of the video which could very well have the vehicle and license plate number of the criminals.
To the date of this post, the sheriffs office of Lane County has yet to do squat about retrieving the surveillance video or pressuring Verizon to release any of the information of the criminal who purchased the phone card that was worth over $100.
This is where the major reason of why I have not been online for a while comes in. I am the gentleman of that couple, and my computer was one of the two stolen from our own home. We have been harassing the sheriffs office to do their job, but we would be appreciative to others who might want to call the sheriffs department's dispatch, which is non-emergency, and join in the harassment. The number can be found on the bottom of this page.
http://www.lanecounty.org/Departments/Sheriff/Pages/default.aspx
Please use the General Information or Non Emergency numbers.
As for Verizon, we'd appreciate any harassment towards them that we can get. If you are a customer, please e-mail or call them and let them know how you feel about a company that is so interested in short term profits that it will protect the information of criminals in order to secure the business of criminals. And if you are not a customer, please do it anyways just to harass them a bit.
I thank you for any support you can give, and for any of you who might want to help "motivate" the Lane County Sheriff or Verizon, I encourage you to have fun, but remember to keep it at least somewhat civil.
