In the old days stores use to toss the carbons in the trash. So any dumpster diver could have hundreds, or even thousands, of credit card numbers to play with. But of course that was only a local problem, not a worldwide one like it is in this electronic age. And, they could not directly access your checking accounts.
-graywolf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

