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Re: Wlan @ bestbuy is cleartext?


From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh () pop jaring my>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 02:26:42 +0800

At 10:31 AM 5/1/02 -0700, Blue Boar wrote:

It's a good reason to use cash over the convenience of plastic.

That said, AFAIK in event of fraudulent credit card transaction:
1) Without a signature the merchant bears most of the risk.
2) With a fake signature the card issuer (or its insurer) bears most of the risk.

Cardholder risk = card cancelled (not always tho!), card issuer gives you a new card. Of course if it happens too many times under _suspicious_ circumstances you may not get a new card.

In the country I live, most card cloners do many multiple simultaneous transactions at different places (even states), so it's pretty obvious it's not you. The card issuer gets the bill.

Regards,
Link.


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