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 VolksFolks
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| posted on January 28th, 2004 at 06:19 PM |
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Subject: ID Theft
Got This Email Today, A Mate Of Mine Recons This Maybe Happened To Him.
ALERT!! Keep a watch out for people standing near you at retail stores, restaurants, grocery stores, etc., that have a mobile phone in hand. With the
new camera mobile phones, they can take a picture of your credit card, which
gives them your name, number, and expiration date. Identification theft
is one of the fastest growing scams today, and this is just another example
of the means that are being used. So... be aware of your surroundings.
Andy
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| posted on January 28th, 2004 at 07:16 PM |
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ID
Hi
I never thought of that so thanks for the heads I will pass it on all my friends
Marc
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 vanderaj
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| posted on January 28th, 2004 at 07:30 PM |
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There's no really good way to prevent some of these attacks. Some phishing attempts are very sly. Never let your card out of your site - go to
the register rather than put it in the little black folder at restaurants for example.
The main preventative measure is to log on to your Internet banking regularly and check out the transactions as they come in.
Credit cards have reasonable processes in place to recover funds. Debit cards don't. Never use a debit card on the Internet or over the phone
unless you can afford to lose all your spare cash, or deliberately keep the balance low.
Andrew
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| posted on January 28th, 2004 at 07:44 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vanderaj
Credit cards have reasonable processes in place to recover funds. Debit cards don't.
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Hmmmm.... never knew that!
But you take your life every time you use them. I mean every shop keeper has it every time you use it.
Who is to say THEY are not the crook????
Tere was that case with the BIG well known restaruant that would take the card and scanned the electronic strip in the back room 
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on January 28th, 2004 at 07:48 PM |
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Can ou beleive that when I (Almost) changed my mobile phone a while back the girl in the shop wanted to photocopy my drivers license and my credit
cards so she could fax them to head office ?
She got REALLY shitty when I said she couldn't because "nobody else has ever had a problem with her doing it"
I told them to "get phuked"
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Baja Wes
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 12:38 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by VolksFolksWith the
new camera mobile phones, they can take a picture of your credit card, which
gives them your name, number, and expiration date.
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I doubt that story. My camera phone is nowhere near high enough quality to do that. Check out the pic below as an example.
You'd have to be damn close to the card to stand a hope and even then I don't think you'd make out the numbers and name.
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 12:52 PM |
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Brad - Dont know how to tell you this, but the reason we can't read the details is because thats a dog.
I'd go back to where you last used your card because they have pulled a switcheroo and replaced it with a woofer.
:P
But yeah I reckon your right
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 01:16 PM |
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LOL@ fatboy!!!
Yet another way people are trying to use those pix phones for evil.
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 01:43 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by fatboy
Brad - Dont know how to tell you this, but the reason we can't read the details is because thats a dog.
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Look closely and you'll see the barkode.
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 01:45 PM |
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"Look closely and you'll see the barkode."
THAT was not even CLOSE to being funny
 :P
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 08:30 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by fatboy
Brad - Dont know how to tell you this, but the reason we can't read the details is because thats a dog.
I'd go back to where you last used your card because they have pulled a switcheroo and replaced it with a woofer.
:P
But yeah I reckon your right
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Look a little closer FatBoy and you will see his name is WES!!!
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 08:40 PM |
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Doh !
Sorry Wes (and Brad)
" Captain Picard, why are there no Indians on the Enterprise ? Don't you need IT Support ? "
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 09:06 PM |
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Uh - Oh
Not the old Brad / Frank / Wes thing again! :o
Futue te ipsum!!!
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modulus
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| posted on January 29th, 2004 at 09:07 PM |
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There you go... ID Theft in action...
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| posted on January 30th, 2004 at 05:08 PM |
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I am a cash register operator and some customers will not let me handle their credit cards. This a major pain in the arse and ultimately a security
issue for the customer, as i am unable to properly check their card, ie: hologram and signature.
You dont need to worry about normal cards unless someone else knows your pin number and has an exact copy of your card.
Only credit cards can be used easily because the numbers on the card, plus the expiry date can be used to make purchases over the phone, ie: no
signature required.
I would be worried if anyone photocopied a credit card or openly transmitted its numbers, ie: fax, email, sms.
As for nearby customers taking a photo of the card, all i can say is "what scum!". |
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| posted on January 31st, 2004 at 03:03 AM |
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I deliberately keep my balance low - just in case. 
Bronze.
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| posted on January 31st, 2004 at 06:00 AM |
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barkode? best thing i've read today (its 0600 hehe). Very punny!
I deliberately keep little money in mine
becos that's all I've got
they took me away haha, hope the medication works
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| posted on January 31st, 2004 at 07:39 AM |
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Quote:
I deliberately keep my balance low - just in case.
Bronze.
i accidently keep my balance low because i spend too much on VW's
John
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