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The risk inside your credit card (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Feb 2012
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msongs
(67,413 posts)1. cc companies enable enable thieves and stick us with the costs...win win for them nt
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)2. It figures. More ways to make the American customer pay in the end...
After all did you know everytime you close a credit card your Credit score takes a HIT. ANY TIME someone Looks up your CREDIT infomation YOUR SCORE takes a HIT. So you go to buy a house and get Water, Gas, Electric, cable-All companies that now check someone's credit-you will see your credit score drop. Don't even start adding Credit fraud to the list of stress.
So it is all a scam to make the average person life harder.
anon-y-moose
(200 posts)3. stop the rf broadcast. alumium foil does it.
wxgeek7
(321 posts)4. If they really cared, security for their customers would be first on their list
...but this is just another case of security playing second fiddle, for the sake of convenience (or money?). A simple security fix would've been to provide a metallic sleeve with the card, like the one shown in the video.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)5. Exactly.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)6. A MUST SEE. Thanks for posting.