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Re: guess who just got his identity stolen?
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:14:43 -0800
Date sent: Sun, 25 May 2008 16:48:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Me. Not that it helped them much, they got through two transactions before the credit card was blocked.
I've had my card data grabbed about half a dozen times over the years (although one was simply proactive due to the TJX thing. One single purchase I made at Winners!) (One was memorable: we know the number was stolen from a gas station where I made a gas purchase outside the hospital on the day Number One grandson was born.)
I travel so much and get so many unrelated credit issues such as blocking because I'm in a country I wasn't at yesterday that my card is closely watched.
Mine must be watched reasonably closely. I dunno how they do it, since my purhases must be weirdly close to patternless. However, the last time it happened, they phoned me at home a day or two after the first false transaction, and correctly identified which one was mine and which false on the same day.
The funny thing is the card company called a phone I nearly never answer and asked for "Mr. or Mrs. Evron". Without waiting i said: "thanks, not interested" and hung up. They called back and for some reason I answered.
On that last call, being the professional paranoiac I am, I called the credit card company back to confirm that they had made the call ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org It's a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot. http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ 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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