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From: mvp@hsv3.uucp (Mike Van Pelt)
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Subject: Re: Credit Card ID
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Date: 12 Apr 90 20:16:07 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 251, Message 2 of 10


In article <6295@accuvax.nwu.edu> cpqhou!scotts@uunet.uu.net writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 249, Message 10 of 13

>... the head of CitiCorp's credit security ... said that thousands of
>retailers all over the country had started asking purchasers to supply
>a home phone number along with credit card purchases.  He stated that
>this had no purpose ...

> ... the reason they ask is simple.  It is a great way to advertise.

I came across another reason a few weeks ago.  I went out for lunch
with several people at work, and one person paid with a credit card.
After we got back, he got a phone call telling him that he had left
his card at the restaurant.  At first he wondered how on earth they
had gotten his work number, then he remembered that that's what he had
written down when they asked for a phone number.

Almost every place that accepts credit cards asks for a phone number.
But I can't recall having gotten junk calls from any but a few big
chain stores.  Certainly not from restaurants.


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