On 08/18/2010 07:59 AM, Tim wrote: > >>> And a repeat of the standard: buy only from known and trusted >>> >> There are millions of web merchants. I can't know them all. How can I >> tell if a site is trusted? >> > You can't. Even if a merchant is trusted, the employees may not be > trustworthy or their database could get broken into and have all of > your info stolen. I work on investigations of systems when this kind > of thing happens and I can tell you it is *very* frequent and only a > fraction of companies notify customers when it happens, even though it > is required by state law. >
Just to reiterate the point... I made a large (in my budget) purchase at Office Depot (brick and mortar version). Almost one year later I get a call from the Fraud Dep't. of my credit union wondering if I am travelling again and currently in Florida. I state the obvious of you called my home phone and I answered. I am not currently in Florida. Seems someone at Office Depot was testing my card to see if they could make a purchase using my hard earned funds. Bruce _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
