[ale] OT: Security code on Credit/Debit cards

[Scott Castaline]

On 02/19/2010 09:58 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> Agreed. Additionally, if you have a strong suspicion of a single
> restaurant, offer to you bank to do a sting operation. Get a special
> card that you fund and only ever use there. If they can catch the
> small fish, they can pressure h[iemr]{2} to expose more of the chain.
>
> Seriously though; Whatever it takes to get another card to use that is
> not connected to your checking account... do it. When you get
> victimized, you want the bank begging you for the money and you saying
> "no, prove it." With a debit card, it's the other way around.
>
Unfortunately, credit cards are not an option as I stated on another 
reply due to huge medical bills, with no insurance I pretty much drowned 
in ~ $60,000 of debt so along came bankruptcy. So needless to say, I 
don't have many options.