1. Speak, 2. Think » travel http://www.punk.co.nz Speaking before thinking since 1981 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MasterCard Skimmed: Priceless http://www.punk.co.nz/2010/02/05/mastercard-skimmed-priceless/ http://www.punk.co.nz/2010/02/05/mastercard-skimmed-priceless/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:53:16 +0000 Kris Price http://www.punk.co.nz/?p=147 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.

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