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From: kirkg@uw-june (Kirk Glerum)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: credit card crime query
Message-ID: <1068@uw-june>
Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 15:33:10 EST
Article-I.D.: uw-june.1068
Posted: Fri Mar  2 15:33:10 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 23:36:54 EST
Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci
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  I have a VISA card, and I'm wondering why no one's ever bought a VCR or
something with it by phone.  Every time I use the silly thing, I'm letting
the sales clerk get ahold of my name, my card number, and its expiration date,
which coincidentally are the exact things needed to buy something via those
800 numbers.  Now I suppose that if someone were to rack up a few grand on me,
I could perhaps find out the address the gear's been sent to, but they could
have moved or something.  My question is: why doesn't this stuff happen all
the time?  Finally, my card's one of those damn gold ones (of which none of
its supposed advantages has ever been apparent - they still look me up in their
stupid books or call some stupid number), which would make me a more likely
target.  Is this a reasonable paranoia?

Kirk Glerum
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