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

[Scott Castaline]

On 03/23/2010 10:49 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 10:33 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>> On 03/23/2010 05:56 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>>> On 03/23/2010 05:20 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
>>>> Don't be too harsh, (somebody might think you're an ass) if you read
>>>> the
>>>> earlier thread you'll have a better appreciation of the situation. BTW,
>>>> there were neither Credit Cards nor Debit Cards in 1910. The point is
>>>> NEVER use a debit card for an online purchase unless you for some
>>>> reason
>>>> want your bank account cleaned out and have a few months to fight with
>>>> the bank to get your $ back. Scott was just updating us on the fact
>>>> that
>>>> he has been notified as to where the compromise of his account
>>>> originated.
>>>
>>> Hey, I am an ass. :-)
>>>
>>> But I was referring, as my contextualized quote indicated, to the rather
>>> alarmingly racist remark.
>>>
>>> --- Mike
>>>
>> Well actually this is the 2nd time in less than a year it has happened
>> to me. Recently the first one was traced to a certain type of restaurant
>> and there were 5 separate attempts to purchase items in 5 different
>> cities in Mexico at the same time which is why the bank's contracted
>> security authorization company declined them as I had just used my card
>> 10 minutes earlier in Lawrenceville. Make note I am not racist just
>> stating the facts as presented to me
Hit send too quick, but I was told when I had been given the info about
the 1st time, that most restaurant double scanning has been Mexican
restaurants at least in the N. Ga. area. It's been related to the drug
cartels in Mexico that are gaining from these thefts. Another
destination is Al Qaida but those usually are done differently and can't
seem to be localized to one area more likely to be hit. And then of
course the common criminal type of theft is 3rd in-line.