Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!kirkg 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 Lines: 15 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 ...decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!uw-june!kirkg