House, Psycho, you're both invited to my dark alley meeting with my mysterious un-benefactor. Bring your friends Tiny, Twitchy, and Syphylis! Sheesh. I guess if we can't have some fun w/ life, it would be pretty overbearing. I'm just lucky to catch this activity only 3 days into it. I'm out no money of my own. My CC is crediting everything back to me. All I need to worry about is future fake accounts being set up in my name.
Thanks for the support guys. This is a great board. Once I narrow my list of possible vendors, maybe we can discuss specifics. I posted the same thread over on Reef Central, and instantly got 4 other leads from CC fraud victims, of which 3 have used the same vendors as I have. Some of this reef equipment is pretty esoteric, so that could just be a coincidence that we both wanted the flashy doohickey with the BLUE lights, not the normal red lights, but I'm looking into it. Another theory is that while the guy running the vendor business may be salt of the earth, perhaps his internal controls or back office practices are lax and someone swiped personal customer info from his trash, etc. One of the vendors implicated so far totally fits that description.