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Some jackass got a hold of my business American Express card number and tried to buy a few hundred dollars of useless shit online yesterday. Saw the charges this morning, and called 'em. AMEX is fixing it, but it's a colossal pain in the ass getting a new card and setting it up with vendors. Keep an eye on all your card accounts, folks! Thieves should be sodomized with a barrel cactus dipped in battery acid and ebolsyphilaids...[Rant1]
Man- that sucks. I'm glad AMEX is making things right, but I am sorry that happened to you.
We were told the new chip would pretty much eliminate this...yet seems like it has only accelerated. I get hit at least once a year and am constantly hearing of others who have gotten hit.
pickenup
11-25-2017, 00:36
Thieves should be sodomized with a barrel cactus dipped in battery acid and ebolsyphilaids...
Why do you want to be so nice to them?
We were told the new chip would pretty much eliminate this...yet seems like it has only accelerated. I get hit at least once a year and am constantly hearing of others who have gotten hit.
Chip and PIN would take care of most of this, but that's apparently too complicated for us in 'Murica.
beast556
11-25-2017, 17:59
Its 2017 not 1990 you would think by now they would be able to solve the identity theft issue by now.
OtterbatHellcat
11-25-2017, 21:49
No shit...right?
Jeffrey Lebowski
11-26-2017, 16:11
I don’t think anyone would like the solution. It would likely be iPhone face scans (or retina?) or whatever. Quite Orwellian.
Doesn't have to be Orwellian, just 2-factor. Something I have (the card) and something I know (PIN). With phone-based payment systems, this should be easy. The Finns were doing this over a decade ago with Nokia. Pay for something from a vending machine with your phone, pay for a car wash with your phone, etc.
iPhone facial recognition is a joke, but that's another topic.
Jeffrey Lebowski
11-27-2017, 07:21
Wouldn’t both of those still show up in the hacked database? For example, the 3 digit on the back of the card? Wasn’t that the initial intent of that?
OTOH, perhaps the two stage authentication used by some VPNs and banks might work, where it is a constantly changing number.
We just need a special retinal scanner for thieves...
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