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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Credit card carbons ("No, you can't have them")
Message-ID: <2724@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 23:12:18 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.2724
Posted: Sun Feb  2 23:12:18 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Feb-86 03:31:13 EST
References: <514@mhuxl.UUCP> <4906@alice.UUCP> <492@tekcrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Advanced Systems Planning
Lines: 16
Summary: Fradulent use of credit card numbers is the issuers problem

In article <492@tekcrl.UUCP> terryl@tekcrl.UUCP explains that credit card
carbon paranoia is to prevent thieves making a mail order purchase with
your credit card number.  This is the standard party line.  However, I
will not carry around messy pieces of carbon paper to save the credit card
companies from suffering this type of loss.  They should control their
merchants more carefully.  If carbons are dangerous to their profits they
should require the merchant to destroy them (as many do), or use NCR paper.

Remember that you are not (in practice) liable for this kind of fraud.
If you do not keep your copies and check your bill carefully you will
eventually loss money to mistakes, even if no one steals your number.
-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl

[ The article above is not an official statement from any organization
  in the known universe. ]