ID Theft - Visa

But it'll be OK when we get ID cards ...

They wouldn't let that happen, would they ?

 

I'm sure it's repeated later on at some unholy hour. Oh, remember those
Riello control units? I'll post a couple out to you, now I'm starting to
use them - had to pay full price today.

 

You do realise that you can easily cancel a direct debit, plus it's a
lot easier to get the money back or the payment stopped compared to a
credit card continuous authority (which are truly the spawn of the
devil)?

 

Because they've maxed out their card again? Or because they don't want
to pay a retailer's surcharge?

The classic one is Ikea - almost everybody fishes out their debit card
when they tell you that you'd have to pay 70p extra for paying by
credit card.

Indeed. And if you've got a current account that does pay half-decent
interest, you lose the credit interest as well. And that's even before
you get to nice things like cashback credit cards.

 

Stupid question - if they're that useless, why do keep your money with
them?

 

*ding*

run it all up on a CC and pay it off in one chunk at the end of the
month. I get cashback on my CC, so I actually *make* money paying for
stuff this way.

 

I sat for 3 years with a database of 250,000 full credit vets, right
down to mother's maiden name, all bank accounts and card numbers. Lots
of famous people too.
I sometimes wish I wasn't so honest.

 

raden wrote

Not if that Dave the Policyless gets his way. Which he will because the
voters, who are all nice old ladies who love cats, all love him for his
breathtaking honesty and integrity and I can't write any more of this
shit because I feel sick now.

 

Get plod involved quick. Get her accounts stopped, all of them.

Switch her banking to the Halifax who rock as far as fraud is
concerned. Particularly online...
http://www.halifax.co.uk/security/onlinefraudguarantee.shtml

Attempt to figure out where her details were obtained from.

 

I love the way they ask for mother's maiden name as if it's something nobody
else might know. Forgot your password / pin etc? Nevermind! If you can do
some basic research, we can post your new cards out to the empty house of
your choice!

 

In a curious reversal of that, this morning I tried to log on to my
telcom site to send an SMS and was told the site was now revamped and
here was the new page with security question. Problem was, the security
question asked was one I'd never partaken of.

Fucking bunch of clueless muppets.

 

http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/D/dispatches2006/data_theft/index.html

 

That bunch of fucking muppets nearly screwed up my house purchase because of
their stupid security procedures. They decided to cancel the transfer of the
deposit money, after ringing me up to reconfirm I'd authorised it (a random
security check), and getting no answer. They'd gone and rung the number of
an address I hadn't lived in for five years, and should have long since been
removed from their systems.

And what did they do to inform me they'd cancelled it? Sent me a letter. Not
much use when my house purchase is in two days, is it, you useless cretins?
I only found out when my solicitor called to ask me where the money was -
cue huge panic, lots of phone calls to Halifax, getting supervisors
involved, and refusing to end the call until the transfer was complete.

Basically they're all crap in one way or another.

 

Better get your arse in gear ... we're already getting busy

 

Found it. Repeated Saturday 14th at 03.40 or something around there if
the repeat of last week's is part of a pattern.

 

Righty-ho; I'll parcel them up tomorrow.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Hog belched forth and ejected the following:

Why?

 

So many people appear to get away quite nicely with being out and out
crooks.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Hog belched forth and ejected the following:

To an outsider, maybe but I don't think I could live with the constant
paranoia. Would you actually feel comfortable hearing the doorbell go or
the police knocking on your door?

I reckon having a clear conscience is a much better thing, imho.

 

Yes, but *that_is_the_difference*, and that's what I think he meant.

Those of us who know when we're being bad/wrong and feel guilty for it
aren't set out for a career in crime. Hog's pointing out that, if he didn't
have such a decent set of moral principles then he'd have been away with the
money.

Much as when, in the early 90s, I had full SysAd access to the DoT's
accounting mainframe, and the ability to set up bogus users around the
country to pay repeating invoices to me without any checking necessary (And
I was sole custodian of all the blank cheques for the DSA and I printed them
all out, with the doors locked for 'security' reasons) but I
*just_couldn't_do_it* as I didn't feel comfortable with nicking the money...

Jesus, I was a twat.

I could have been living it up for the last 15 years....

Bollocks.

Dave