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BEWARE if you have Chase Bank
15 years ago
If you have Chase, look at the back of your debit card. If it has this:
http://cache.u47.net/11703/blink/im.....of_card_lg.gif
Your shit is going to get stolen. It's called blink.... it allows you to use your card without actually swiping it. It's supposed to let you just wave your card near a credit card machine rather than having to swipe it through. What idiocy is that? All that is going to accomplish is allowing your account number to transmit from your wallet like a beacon. It happened to me; a few months ago I had some fraudulent charges on my card. I didn't know how somebody got my card info, I'm usually REALLY careful. Turns out, crooks can buy something called a scanner, and carry it in their pocket. All they have to do is walk close enough to you (or accidentally 'bump' into you) and the scanner collects the card data because of the card's BLINK feature.
Anyway, if you have Chase, and see the blink logo on the back of your card, walk into a chase bank, tell them they are a raving group of fucktards, and demand a card without it. Chase knows full well the risks of the Blink feature, and doesn't even give their customers foreknowledge of the risks. I actually didn't even ask for blink, it was just standard at the branch I signed up for my account at. So you may have it too and not realize it.
Anyway, don't continue walking around with one of these cards. Its not a question of if your card info is going to get stolen, more a question of when
http://cache.u47.net/11703/blink/im.....of_card_lg.gif
Your shit is going to get stolen. It's called blink.... it allows you to use your card without actually swiping it. It's supposed to let you just wave your card near a credit card machine rather than having to swipe it through. What idiocy is that? All that is going to accomplish is allowing your account number to transmit from your wallet like a beacon. It happened to me; a few months ago I had some fraudulent charges on my card. I didn't know how somebody got my card info, I'm usually REALLY careful. Turns out, crooks can buy something called a scanner, and carry it in their pocket. All they have to do is walk close enough to you (or accidentally 'bump' into you) and the scanner collects the card data because of the card's BLINK feature.
Anyway, if you have Chase, and see the blink logo on the back of your card, walk into a chase bank, tell them they are a raving group of fucktards, and demand a card without it. Chase knows full well the risks of the Blink feature, and doesn't even give their customers foreknowledge of the risks. I actually didn't even ask for blink, it was just standard at the branch I signed up for my account at. So you may have it too and not realize it.
Anyway, don't continue walking around with one of these cards. Its not a question of if your card info is going to get stolen, more a question of when
It's stupid though, I can't believe they are being so careless
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8cdd/
And what in the wide, wide world of sports is with everybody and their blessed mother demanding my social security number?! My bank does not need to know my social security number for me to make a deposit, they need to know my account number, the amount, and where it is coming from. My PHARMACIST asked for it the other day! I told him, (in the nicest manner possible), to kiss the darkest part of my lily white butt cheeks and produced my driver's liscense. If that's not enough of an ID, I don't need to be using that pharmacy. It's just ludicrous.
Like when they invented the three little numbers on the back of the credit card to make it more safe. So that if people got your number, they couldn't use the card. Yeah, that works. Everything I've ever bought demands those three numbers, so if my credit card number is stolen from ANYWHERE that I bought anything, they have those numbers as well. Works real well, don't it?