... wireless pickpocketing era

[Peter Fairbrother]

David Hansen wrote:

> On 9 May 2007 at 5:50, Peter Tomlinson wrote:
>=20
>> Note the information about the rules: =A310 max per transaction, need the
>> PIN every 10 transactions. That's supposed to convince us that the limit
>> of exposure is =A390.

Yes - just wait till he inputs a pin, then scarf the card again ... and
worse, it's not as if it's always every ten transactions, so he might ahve =
a
chance of noticing, it might be after two or three transactions because the
card has been used in a manner which the Bank thinks is suspicious, under a=
n
arcane set of rules which they won't tell us about for "security reasons"

Or, suppose your kids get hold of it ... when it stops working, they put it
back until Mummy or Daddy enters the pin which makes it work again ..

> Indeed. Even if it was =A390 that is still a lot of money for many
> people.


Yes.


The real difficulty however is, how do you prove it? You _were_ walking dow=
n
Oxford Street that day, may even have made some purchases in the shop next
door, so the fact that you didn't buy that =A39.99 bottle of gin/CD/DVD is
going to be _very_ hard to prove ... especially a month or more later ...




I'm not getting one. YMMV.


--=20
Peter Fairbrother