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Contactless and revenue checks
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 11:59:13 +0000
Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 11:01:00 on Thu, 4 Feb 2016, d remarked: As for "burner cards" (I've got two of them) that's just a cost of doing Burner cards? Prepay cards - I've got two and one has zero on it the other about a tenner. Might get one of them. They issued by your bank or can you just but them somewhere? They'd have to trace the card owner through the bank first. I very much doubt the bank would oblidge them without a warrant and if its a foreign bank they can forget it. Given that the police and the banks run a joint card-fraud operation, I suspect that it wouldn't be as hard as you think (and there are special Ah, but I doubt NOT using your card when you should have counts as card fraud as far as the banks are concerned. -- Spud |
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Contactless and revenue checks
In message , at 12:07:13 on Thu, 4 Feb
2016, d remarked: As for "burner cards" (I've got two of them) that's just a cost of doing Burner cards? Prepay cards - I've got two and one has zero on it the other about a tenner. Might get one of them. They issued by your bank or can you just but them somewhere? It's hard to find contactless ones, but I got an "Orange" card (yes, the mobile phone company) but they recently threw in the towel[1] and the business has been rebranded: http://www.myoptimumcard.co.uk/ They'd have to trace the card owner through the bank first. I very much doubt the bank would oblidge them without a warrant and if its a foreign bank they can forget it. Given that the police and the banks run a joint card-fraud operation, I suspect that it wouldn't be as hard as you think (and there are special Ah, but I doubt NOT using your card when you should have counts as card fraud as far as the banks are concerned. No, but doing a runner after failing to have the funds loaded, when they later try to charge the card, might be. [1] As they also did with their Film-Wednesdays incentive. -- Roland Perry |
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