Yikes!

I guess this is only the beginning, as the economy gets worse and worse.... I got one of those toll-free fraud prevention calls from a credit card company this morning. When I called back, I found that someone made a bunch of large charges using my credit card number today. Huge cable bills, and a huge electric bill! Much much bigger than mine would ever be. And a few dollars at a food store, and ten or so dollars at Walmart. I guess the small transactions were a "test"?

The thing that doesn't make sense to me is that if someone pays their cable bill and their electric bill with someone else's credit card number, they know where to find that person! Or they know where to find someone, at least. If they used it to buy goods, at least in theory they can disappear with the stuff.... is that a really dumb thief, or is there something I am missing? or were they just desperate? And of course you always wonder, how did they get my number?