30 years ago slashdot had a holy crusade to claim hacker and hack as holy
ground and attempted to get crack, cracked, cracker into the common lexicon. I
will admit to being a cracker but not that kind.
From: Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2025 2:14 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] credit card fraud rate
I hate the term hacked. They use it for everything now, rarely was anyone
hacked
Most are probably phishing, usually done by the wife following a link from
pinterest or tiktok for some shit she should have been doing in the house anyway
I got a fraud alert once, never cancelled the card cause F going through
changing everything. in the course of investigating it I found out my name/ssn
is associated with some address in New York, Im part owner of a crack den or
something, I dont know, New York can burn to the ground.
But another "hack" that occurs, is the pig wife tries making a bunch of temu
purchases and it flags as fraud because the volume of transactions. Women dont
have capacity for accountability so they deny any knowing, and hubby has to
fraud out the card and replace it
Or same swine lady tries to get in the online account but doesn tknow the
husband changed the password to "1JustWant2PaintTheCeiling" and locks the
account out
99 percent of the time, a set ov ovaries is involved. Take the estrogen out of
the finance, wed probably see much less fraud
IMHO
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
What's the name of the hotel? I think it's a great opportunity to hack the
hotel into free bennies with a tossable card ( one that you fill with $$ and
toss )... JK....
On 2/6/25 11:45 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
It's happened to us a few times over the last decade or so.
The last time was pretty obvious. We were staying overnight in a hotel on
the coast in Pacifica. We had gone out on the beach because it was pretty nice
for early January, and got too close to the water, so I got my pants wet.
The hotel had a complimentary washer/dryer, so we decided to throw the
pants in the dryer so we could hit the road sooner. Oddly (to me) the
washer/dryer would not accept coins, bills, or credit cards, but "REQUIRED" you
install an app neither one of us had ever heard of before. Of course, the app
required a credit card. My SO installed the app, entered our credit card, and
whammo! We got a fraud alert on the credit card (like in a minute).
I was so pissed at the hotel. They went out of their way to disable other
(simpler) ways to put a dime in the washer/dryer, and instead had to have this
cockamamie app to pay for it. I complained bitterly, the card was (mostly) inop
for a week.
The only good thing was the hotel gave us a gaggle of points toward our
rewards membership (and an apology)
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 2/6/2025 10:20 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
It seems to me the rate at which customers have to give us a new card
number because their card “got hacked” (i.e. fraud) is surprisingly high. My
own experience with both personal and business cards is this happens at most
every 10 years or so, and I do a lot of both in person and online card
transactions. Not too many though where I hand the card to someone.
Is this common? Why does it happen so often to some people? Or is
something else going on and they aren’t telling me the real reason?
I know some people use one-time cards and give us a different one every
month or two, but I think this is different.
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