[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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