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Re: Slightly OT: Think the color change is bad? Try dealing with Check Card fraud!
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lugnet.color
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Sat, 22 May 2004 02:04:10 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Simmons wrote:
> Now I'm no net ranger, and I've deleted a lot of obvious fakes, but this one
> was subtle and managed to silence that little voice in the back of my head.
The simplest way around stuff like this is to always do it by phone, and only
using numbers that you get from the phone book. It's a lot easier to fake an
e-mail address than it is to have a fake phone number set up in the white pages,
and any info that they (the companies that actually hold your accounts) can take
by e-mail they should also be able to take by phone.
> I found out later that it was fake, and cancelled my old card and had a new
> one sent, telling them (my bank, BofA) exactly why I was doing this. They
> managed to circumvent that anyway.
I very much doubt that it's the card that they were after. It's your account
number. Once they have that, they don't need your card. They can just do
check-by-phone, submit fake electronic checks, or just do basic wire-transfers,
and the only benefit you'll get out of cancelling your old card is that you'll
have a shiny new piece of plastic in your pocket.
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