40 Million Credit Card numbers hijacked

Martin wrote:
On 20 Jun 2005 10:12:32 -0700, wrote:


Firstdirect, GBP 250 overdraft no charge.
If you dont already belong they will pay you GBP 25 to open an account.
If you do belong, phone them 3 times and ask where your GBP 25 is, et
viola.

GBP25 with strings? :-)
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Martin

http://www.firstdirect.com/apply/current_account.shtml

Martin wrote:
On 20 Jun 2005 10:48:18 -0700, wrote:



Martin wrote:
On 20 Jun 2005 10:12:32 -0700, wrote:


Firstdirect, GBP 250 overdraft no charge.
If you dont already belong they will pay you GBP 25 to open an account.
If you do belong, phone them 3 times and ask where your GBP 25 is, et
viola.

GBP25 with strings? :-)

http://www.firstdirect.com/apply/current_account.shtml

Nah, it was a pun on your "et viola"
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Martin

pun ?

Martin wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:54:11 +0100,
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
wrote:
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That's a lot of money for something like that. I'm not sure what I'd
have done. I might have considered writing to the manager, and
explaining the situation. If it really was your fault for not
understanding how the topup was going to work, then I suppose the charge
is fair enough, but even banks will relent. Certainly, the Inland
Revenue does. I got a £100 fine for sending my tax return a day late
this year. I wrote to them and said this was unfair, and they agreed!

I paid the bank a visit and got it back last time something similar
happened. I'll do the same next time we are in UK.

That's a good plan. I imagine that a hint you might move your deposit
account elsewhere might be worth a try if you get no joy initially. The
only problems I've had with unexpected charges has been with my mobile
phone company- in one case I'd been using data services assuming I was
on a promotional rate when the promotion was over- racking up around a
£30 surcharge. After a while on the phone to them, I got it removed as a
'goodwill gesture.'

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David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

Gregory Morrow wrote:
I've no qualms about the US having a standard ID card system.

I do. It's one of the primary means used to control people in
Fascist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Totalitarian countries. We don't
have a Carnet National and aren't likely to. It's an extremely
dangerous thing to have.
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