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Subject:	Re: Slightly OT: Think the color change is bad? Try dealing with Check Card fraud!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.color
Date:	Sat, 22 May 2004 22:09:52 GMT
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"Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:Hy3F2y.vE6@lugnet.com... > 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. Yep, that's exactly what happened. I was mainly pissed because I'd called to get a new card specifically telling them why, but I guess it should come as no surprise that Customer Service is a contradiction in terms. They could've told me that replacing the card wasn't going to solve the potential problem! Oh well, live and learn! Dave

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		Re: Slightly OT: Think the color change is bad? Try dealing with Check Card fraud!
(...) My wife was the victim of such a crime. In her case, she had an ATM card with a credit card logo on it, allowing her to use her cash card anywhere that VISA was accepted. She used the card at a local place of business, and a dishonest clerk (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.market.shopping)

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		Re: Slightly OT: Think the color change is bad? Try dealing with Check Card fraud!
(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.color)

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