[PLUG] Financial security on the net

Bruce kd7vvk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 01:25:54 UTC 2010


On 08/18/2010 07:59 AM, Tim wrote:
>    
>>> And a repeat of the standard:  buy only from known and trusted
>>>        
>> There are millions of web merchants. I can't know them all. How can I
>> tell if a site is trusted?
>>      
> You can't.  Even if a merchant is trusted, the employees may not be
> trustworthy or their database could get broken into and have all of
> your info stolen.  I work on investigations of systems when this kind
> of thing happens and I can tell you it is *very* frequent and only a
> fraction of companies notify customers when it happens, even though it
> is required by state law.
>    

Just to reiterate the point...

I made a large (in my budget) purchase at Office Depot (brick and mortar version).  Almost one year later I get a call from the Fraud Dep't. of my credit union wondering if I am travelling again and currently in Florida.  I state the obvious of you called my home phone and I answered.  I am not currently in Florida.  Seems someone at Office Depot was testing my card to see if they could make a purchase using my hard earned funds.

Bruce






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