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Tiny charges on bank cards could presage bigger problems
From: brian.seel at gmail.com (Brian Seel)
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:06:23 -0700
I have been using mint for about 9 months now and I love it. While they store your transactions on their server, they dont store anything else as they just authenticate with your bank. I was pretty worried about it when I first signed up which was why I didnt give them any information. But it has worked great, and the benifits of knowing what is going on in my finances well outwiegh the risk of attack. And if something does happen, then your bank will allow you to reverse the charges if you let them know within two days. But I like it. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 15:11, Mad Marv <marv at madmarvonline.com> wrote:
Interesting fraud tactic, brute forcing to find legitimate debit card numbers rather than having to steal the info. Also mentions how Mint.com alerted affected members once they detected the anomoly. Anyone here use Mint? I've always avoided them because their service seems like a big, fat bullseye. Maybe there's some value to them? http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/02/01/tiny_charges_on_bank_cards_could_presage_bigger_problems/ Marv _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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