malpua:

This is something that sounds stupid, but I went out for drinks with this ex pro player who got me drunk to the point where he used my debit card to pay for drinks (150 dollars for the beers, shots and margheritas) took me to his house on friday night and had his way. Im missing 150 dollars in my pocket and im afraid of risking pregnancy which i need a test for (around 15 dollars) so if it’s possible please help raise this amount back as i still have bills and groceries to pay for as my parents dont support me financially anymore.

my paypal: riya2198@gmail.com

tigerliliesandcherryblossoms:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

einarshadow:

charminggoats:

meatswitch:

This is a way bigger problem than people seem to realize, and sales reps for cable companies will set up an account in a child’s name knowing full well they’re under 18. Just to get a sale.

Every cable company has a fraud department, if this happened to you call customer service for the company your account was opened with and file a complaint. They are required by law to expunge the debt.

I will always reblog this shit when I see it. Why? Because this happened to me when I first moved out on my own and would have ruined my life if I didn’t have supportive friends and roommates with better credit scores. My mom ran up a ton of bills in my name and got a hold of an unused checkbook of mine, writing checks on an account I never touched anymore. I moved out on my own and found I had a credit score in the 300s and tons of debt. I was already homeless at the time; luckily I was moving into an apartment with a friend with a much higher credit score and enough money in savings to cover the subsequent security deposits, trusting me to pay her back since she knew me already and knew I had a job.

How to fix this:

1. Cut that asshole out of your life. You don’t need someone who doesn’t give a shit that they’ve ruined your adult life. If they say they’re sorry, let’s be real – they’re probably not. They’re just fucking sorry they got caught. Fuck them.

2. Pull a yearly credit report (for free at annualcreditreport.com) and consider paying out the money to lock down your credit so people need to get approval before opening a new line of credit in your name. 

3. Write the companies for more information on the debt and to dispute it, letting them know that it’s an identity theft issue. If you were underage at the time, they will need some sort of proof but they will have to remove it. Do all of this via Certified Mail with Return Receipt. Keep all documentation including copies of letters, tracking numbers, etc. well organized. I recommend scanning everything as well and saving copies onto some sort of cloud storage just in case anything happens to your physical copies (but definitely keep those physical copies as well, *at least* for eleven years after disputing. Sometimes those debts sneak back on there two or three years later. Sometimes you have to get lawyers involved if any of those companies take you to court. Lawyers will want physical copies of your physical copies if possible.)

4. Report it to the police and FTC (for the Americans in the crowd.) If you’ve moved out of the same county/state that your parent lives in or that you lived in at the time, this may get tricky af. If the local police department is overloaded and understaffed, they’ll try to push you off to another county. Be patient and persistent. File in as many places as you can. Yes, identity theft is a crime. There is a chance that your parent will be arrested, particularly if they have priors. You’ve got to be prepared to do what you have to do. A lot of times it does go unpunished though. I know in my case it did. My mom continues to do this with others in her life. The police have done nothing and she’s not learned her lesson at all. At least my credit score is mostly fixed though. You can access the FTC’s identity theft information here: https://www.identitytheft.gov/

5. If you’ve been taken to court on anything, you will need to get a lawyer. If you’re low income, check with the local or state bar association to see what options you have for a free or discounted legal service. If you are a college student, even part time, you may have access to free legal services through your college. If you have to pay to hire an attorney, it is worth the cost to dispute it. Depending on how much debt it is and what state it occurred in, you could be stuck with that for 20 years. There’s also a chance that they can take anything you own (like your car) to cover that debt if you live in the same state. Get it cleared out. You do not want your life to be a total fucking disaster all the way into your late 30s/early 40s. (And trust me – if you don’t get your credit cleared up, it will be. You will be disqualified from certain jobs – even some retail positions! You will struggle to get housing. Everything you do that involves credit will cost more money – turning on electricity, getting an apartment, getting your own cell phone account, buying a car, getting vehicle or renters insurance… 

Until everything is fixed, there is definitely a feeling that the entire world is out to get you and that you will never get caught up. Please stay on top of this and get that shit straightened out. 

I’m not a lawyer so my info only comes from my own personal experience and not any sort of actual training in this. However, if anyone is going through this and ever wants to talk to someone who has been there before, feel free to hit me up. Again, not a lawyer so can’t really give legal advice but am always happy to give support and remind you to drop toxic people from your life, no matter who they are or how they’re related to you.

@deadcatwithaflamethrower signle-boost?

Definitely worthy of the boost.

Boosting. I’ve worked in banking for 30 years & I cannot count the number of times I saw this vile back stabbing shit happen to people. It’s that fucking frequent.

If asked to files charges, unless your safety’s at risk, do it.

And for fuck’s sake never give your kid your exact name, your so’s exact name, or first names. Nothing but nightmares waiting to happen as no one checks jack shit in any kind of detail when it’s all about the sale or work queue

holy-muffins:

the-technicolor-dream:

⚠️Urgent Help Needed⚠️

A longtime friend of mine just received a no cause eviction notice from her landlord after her husband, a veteran, adopted an emotional support dog. They have experienced increasing transphobic hostility in the community which has sent a clear message that it is no longer a safe place for them. Not only are they losing their home of 12 years but also their flea market business which is in the same building.

Their whole life has been turned upside down. They are now forced to move cross country on short notice.

Please donate whatever you can, no amount is too small and share this. ❤️

Please reblog to help our friend! She and her husband have received a bullshit but legal No Cause Notice (almost definitely over their service animal, but this can’t be proven) and are having to relocate to Oregon very suddenly. Moving costs alone are going to be $6000-$7000 alone and after that Oregon is very expensive to start your life again in.

Please please please at least signal boost to help them, a transwoman and her veteran cis husband, as they have also lost their business in the middle of this as well.

wildcardarcana:

bootylesbian:

If you view being racist as integral to white childhood and being asked + taught to critically engage with how you view people of color as someone destroying innocence or forcing a child to grow up, you are indisputably implying children of color should be silent victims.

if you don’t teach children to be racist in the first place (and this includes weird homogenous raising of children so that they think anything non-white is super weird and react as such) surprisingly you don’t get children with much to unlearn personally all they gotta do is adapt and understand the systemic shit

platovevo:

“The left, as we have known it, as important as it has been, cannot remain the same force until it adequately counters these developments. Therefore it is important for the left to recognise that the constitution of the global working classes is very different now. In many ways the left is still dealing with this notion of the working classes as male, or white male, as in the case of the US. I think feminism, radical feminism, radical anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism helps us to do the reconceptualisation that is necessary in order to produce a left that is more in line with the vast changes that have occurred in the era of global capitalism, recognising the feminisation of the working class, the structural shifts in the global economy, of the fact that some industries are largely populated by women, industries that rely on reproductive labour, of care industries, domestic service, health care, etc. It seems to me that in many ways, unions around the world are not willing to recognise those changes. To organise the unorganised, at this moment, is to organise women.”

— Angela Davis, https://thewire.in/87020/global-left-understanding-feminisation-of-workforce-angela-davis/ (via matfem)