MasterCard Skimmed: Priceless

by Kris Price on 5 February 2010

Seems my MasterCard was skimmed somewhere in my travels, winding up in the hands of some crook in the UK. What I found interesting was plotting the thief’s actions with it. Seems they bought some Jewellery (big ticket item) in Torquay, then went on a road trip to Wolverhampton, taking a shopping spree at Tesco’s, and buying lots of gas on the way. $5,305.49 all up.


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If only there were some webcams with archives of these areas. Or the police photographed every vehicle license plate passing certain parts of the M5 as routine, could be quite easy to narrow down a list of suspect vehicles. This would be a fun database project: a system where the fraud investigator at my bank or the police could just punch in the times and locations of the events, and the computer could produce a list of vehicles that were in all of those areas at those times. A bit too 1984-esque though I suppose.

{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Anton March 18, 2010 at 1:35 am

so where is the next update?

and yes.. no more 1984 please.

Maximus September 18, 2010 at 10:32 am

Kris, I’m a little intrigued as to why you have nothing about standing for Council on your blog. Presumably it costs money to put your name on the list, and presumably you are interested in local body politics to do that. I know from your comments in the Capital Times that you are keen on public transport options for Wellington – and I have a feeling that you are also a regular commenter on the Eye of the Fish – sooooo….

Why no statements about why you are standing?
Do you want to make a statement that we could run in EoTF? I’ll leave that thought with you…

Kris Price September 18, 2010 at 10:42 pm

Quite right. Problem fixed. :)

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