[CQ-Contest] LOTW secuity--hams as a microcosm

[ted demopoulos]

It happens a lot.
My first case of fraud was right after I bought some books from the ARRL Web 
Site (my first online transaction - I'm sure thats just a coincidence). A 
fee for US$555 from some company in NJ showed up on my Amex Bill, but I had 
been in New Zealand for a few months and knew it couldn't be me OR the XYL.

There's been a least one other unauthorized charge on my card too.

Then right before this Christmas, both Amex and Visa cancelled my cards and 
reissued them. At least in the case of Amex, they called me and asked if I'd 
been out of the country recently. Seems someone overseas somewhere had a 
physical card with my number on it and was trying to make big ticket 
purchases. Visa gave me much less info.

This number is no doubt obselete, although still ballpark: about 2% of a 
credit card issuers cost is in fraud.  In other words, they lose maybe 2% of 
revenue due to fraud - the cost of doing business

73
Ted KT1V


>From: Bill Turner <wrt at dslextreme.com>
>Reply-To: wrt at dslextreme.com
>To: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u at hal-pc.org>
>CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] LOTW secuity--hams as a microcosm
>Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:51:00 -0700
>
>On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:35:39 -0500, "Dale L Martin" <kg5u at hal-pc.org>
>wrote:
>
> >Sure, my card is protected to a degree, but I've
> >NEVER had anyone ever use my card for anything beyond what I was
> >purchasing.
>
>_________________________________________________________
>
>It happens somehow.  A few months ago someone in a city about a
>hundred miles from me charged a bunch of motorcycle parts and had them
>shipped to a Las Vegas address using my Visa card number, including my
>name and card expiration date.  Both the bank and the shipping company
>apologized profusely, said they couldn't understand how it could
>happen, etc, etc, but there it was on my statement.
>
>It took about six weeks, but it finally got straightened out ok.
>
>--
>Bill, W7TI
>
>
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