Ok so my dad found a credit card lying around somewhere. I assumed the best thing to do was to call the credit card company. I called the number on the back of the card, but it asked for the last digits of my account number (which I don't have) and when I tried entering the last digits of the card number, it said WRONG and wanted my SSN so I didn't get anywhere with that.

I tried googling for the answer and going to the credit card company's website, but the information is all overwhelmingly WHAT TO DO IF CARD IS LOST/STOLEN. Some random blogs told me that cutting the card up is the best action to take since most people cancel their card, and I'm too lazy to take it to the police station.

Has this occured to anyone else? Should I cut it up or should I put the effort in to find the owner? P.S. this is a serious question so if anyone says BUY A PRIVATE ISLAND or something similar I will warn you! (Exceptions will be made for extremely funny answers, but I warn you that unless you are Hundley the chances of this are very slim)

this is the boring and obvious answer but cut it up and dispose of it properly. i think it's pretty strange you are taking this seriously because this is a pretty common thing i think, the person who owns it probably cancelled it already and has a new one. if they don't cancel the old one, with it cut up and thrown away there's no damage that can be done since only you know the card number.

sorry but i am just keeping it real.

thanks for keepin it real

yeah, if no one gave me any better replies I was going to cut it up, like I said. The only reason I was hesitant is that I can imagine the person losing the card being curious and wanting to know if a BADDIE or a GOODIE found the card

speaking of finding things, from everything i have ever heard in my life usually you will just get cool guy points and not much else for returning anything. it's unfortunate life is not a video game otherwise you would get paladin skills for helping people.

i find stuff sometimes when i am delivering papers and i once found a wallet and inside was the ID of the person. since i have route lists that tell me who lives in every house i just searched the list and delivered it straight to their mail box. these people probably think a GHOST or something did this but it was really me. basically a ghost is stealing all my credit.

ok this topic is now about SHIT I HAVE F jesus christ i just had the most painful sneeze goddamit

SHIT I HAVE FOUND

there was this one time I walked into class early and I saw a card with the activation sticker still on it, so I bent the card  back and forth until it snapped; 30 minutes into the class a girl walks in looking for something around my seat, I kinda had the card still on my desk, but my book was over it.

Good thing I was way to lazy to get up and throw the card away because she checked the garbage can too.

My dad found a wallet with a $100 bill in it, but since he is a good guy he went to their house

My girlfriend found a wallet was $260 dollars in it recently, and she gave it all back. Some of my friends seem to think you're allowed a 'finders fee' or something but they're probably just shitbags. I think in your dads situation that was alright if they were being lame.

But yeah ASE - snip it up. If you don't wanna take it to the cop station it's the best course of action.

it really sucks doing something like that for like an empty skittles wrapper or something

Personally I would stop being lazy and take it to the police station.

I once found 200$ on the road, Near log cabin (A convenience store near where I live) i thought about putting up an ad for it or w/e but then I thought "screw that if someones that irresponsible to leave 200$ unprotected on the ground then it's fair game." and I still have it somewhere because I don't have anything I need to spend 200$ on. seriously who carries 200$ around with them while going to a convenience store?


But yeah you should take the credit card to the police station, the person might of cancled it but it's just in case.

yeah im sure the police really care about dealing with someone's already cancelled credit card

BUY A PRIVATE ISLAND

Yeah, cutting it up is really the best thing to do.  That way, it can't be used again.  So the owner won't be charged in the very least for charges -- the worst that'd happen is they have to get a new one.  "ho noes!!!!"

--Terin