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Guy Gets Credit Card After Submitting a Torn-Up Application
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:40:26 GMT
I think this illustrates the fact there are serious, serious problems in the whole credit industry. Wow. Via Boing Boing. [snip] Rob Cockerham of Cockeyed.com says: "I wasn't sure if just tearing a Credit Card application into tiny bits was good enough to prevent dumpster-diving theft, so I did a test. "I tore one up, then taped it back together again, filled it out with a DIFFERENT address and CELL number. "Sure enough, in four weeks I was rewarded with a shiny new card with a $5,000 limit. "Now I guess I'll go buy a shredder with this card." [snip] Picture, too: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/10/guy_gets_credit_card.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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