Thank you, fraud detection!
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chriselst wrote:
You get all sorts of protection using a credit card
Believe me, you pay for that protection one way or another. And I've never needed it :)
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In the UK credit card companies have joint responsibility with the vendor for goods and services sold. As an example, when Lowcost Holidays went bust recently all those wwho'd paid by credit card will get their money back, all those who didn't won't. You're automatically covered up to around 60 grand.
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I need a (secret) pin code to make any payments with my bank card. So if it ever gets stolen it's still pretty useless without the pin code that only I know.
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This may be true (the "secret" pin), but here in the US, we have a severe problem with organized crime installing skimmers on the gas station pump (and banks for that matter). These devices look like the real thing, and they even have a small camera to record your pin. If you go to a gas station, credit or cash.
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charlieg wrote:
, their gas bill,
Pardon me for asking, but isn't that like a really stupid thing for a crook to do if they don't want to get caught (at least in the USA).
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lol, you would *think* right? Then again, the banks went on the biggest robbery spree a few years back when they go bailed out, so stupid has no limits.
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Uhm how much difference is there between a bank card and a credit card, except you need funds to cover the bank card. Operationally I think they are the same.
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huge difference as has been said (in the US anyway). There are federal laws limiting your liability if your card is lost or stolen. We've had to many large merchants get hacked that the # of cards stolen is in the millions. What you call a bank card, we call a debit card (I think, feel free to correct me). In the US, if someone fraudulently removes $$ from your account via your debit card, you are at the mercy and good graces of the bank. Can't speak for Europe -
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lol, you would *think* right? Then again, the banks went on the biggest robbery spree a few years back when they go bailed out, so stupid has no limits.
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charlieg wrote:
he banks went on the biggest robbery spree a few years back when they go bailed out, so stupid has no limits.
Yeah - but the real thieves who got away with it:* The local mortgage bankers (main st, not wall st) who made predatory loans
- The halting (by the the current administration) of the regulation that would not allow these loans*
- The banks/investment people got their piece in by packaging these as high quality paper when they were bound to default with the first economic hiccup where loan rates change. Again, the regulators were kept at bay.
The bailouts - reminds me of the same type of crap that went on in the 80's, bailing out farmers that overspent on fancy equipment at ridiculous loan rates. The real culprit is greed. Regardless of one's economic-system-of-choice, if you don't keep a sharp eye out, someone will cheat. By the time they're caught (as in above), the whole may be so deep that a bridge must be built by the rest of us lest we get washed in like a mountainside home during a monsoon. The real culprit, never mind political rhetoric, is a result enforcing regulations. If either the second or third item, above, had been regulated then the collapse would have been significantly mitigated if not averted. The whole thing, except for it's scale, is nearly exactly what happened with the FSLIC collapse, again, real-estate investment, and again regulators called back, and as usual, the bill is picked up by the taxpayers. *True that there was a law passed to make loans more available - but nothing in that law said to make loans that couldn't be service by the consumer - they were illegal but unchecked.
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huge difference as has been said (in the US anyway). There are federal laws limiting your liability if your card is lost or stolen. We've had to many large merchants get hacked that the # of cards stolen is in the millions. What you call a bank card, we call a debit card (I think, feel free to correct me). In the US, if someone fraudulently removes $$ from your account via your debit card, you are at the mercy and good graces of the bank. Can't speak for Europe -
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I will not accept a debit card. If money's going to be at risk, let it be the bank's money. They're making a profit from the transactions so they can take the risk. Besides, when it's their money at stake they work a lot harder to fix things.
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"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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charlieg wrote:
he banks went on the biggest robbery spree a few years back when they go bailed out, so stupid has no limits.
Yeah - but the real thieves who got away with it:* The local mortgage bankers (main st, not wall st) who made predatory loans
- The halting (by the the current administration) of the regulation that would not allow these loans*
- The banks/investment people got their piece in by packaging these as high quality paper when they were bound to default with the first economic hiccup where loan rates change. Again, the regulators were kept at bay.
The bailouts - reminds me of the same type of crap that went on in the 80's, bailing out farmers that overspent on fancy equipment at ridiculous loan rates. The real culprit is greed. Regardless of one's economic-system-of-choice, if you don't keep a sharp eye out, someone will cheat. By the time they're caught (as in above), the whole may be so deep that a bridge must be built by the rest of us lest we get washed in like a mountainside home during a monsoon. The real culprit, never mind political rhetoric, is a result enforcing regulations. If either the second or third item, above, had been regulated then the collapse would have been significantly mitigated if not averted. The whole thing, except for it's scale, is nearly exactly what happened with the FSLIC collapse, again, real-estate investment, and again regulators called back, and as usual, the bill is picked up by the taxpayers. *True that there was a law passed to make loans more available - but nothing in that law said to make loans that couldn't be service by the consumer - they were illegal but unchecked.
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It's always easier when you are spending other peoples' money. You neglected to mention the direct intervention by Congress (Chris Dodd and Barney Frank) blocking any meaningful reform. If you want to be nice to people, do it with your own money.
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It's always easier when you are spending other peoples' money. You neglected to mention the direct intervention by Congress (Chris Dodd and Barney Frank) blocking any meaningful reform. If you want to be nice to people, do it with your own money.
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charlieg wrote:
blocking any meaningful reform
Because I wasn't talking about reform. I was talking about illegal predatory loans that could never be serviced by the borrower should interest rates go up (they did) and these loans packaged and mislabeled (by the financial institutions). Loans made not by Wall Street, where the fraudulent packaging and reselling took place, but my Main Street, where the local mortgage broker talked people into these loans. So far as I've heard, none of these brokers got so much as a slap on the fingertip for the profits they pocketed. But who was minding the store? Checking and approving/not approving these loans. Well, it was a replay of the Reagan FSLIC era: the Federal enforcement was called off as it was inhibiting commerce. Or, had it been in the 'recognized crime' world, influence peddling and racketeering.
But - as I did mention - the money finally spent was from the Middle Class's pockets. At least for the auto industry, the loans have been (or are being) paid back with interest. The laws, meant to stop this, never made it through congress (dominated by which party - duh)."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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