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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Credit card carbons ("No, you can't have them")
Message-ID: <850@felix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 17:00:44 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.850
Posted: Mon Feb  3 17:00:44 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 04:48:30 EST
References: <8529@ucla-cs.ARPA> <514@mhuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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Summary: What about listing your credit card number on the back of checks

In article <514@mhuxl.UUCP> daw1@mhuxl.UUCP (Douglas A. Williams) writes:
>	As a side note, the local stores have all taken to tearing out
>the carbons and offering them to you. If you decline, they tear them up
>before they toss them in the trash. I've even come across slips that
>have the carbon goo applied to the back of the pages so there are no
>carbons to throw away.

Something that concerns me more than the credit card carbons is all of the
stores that now require that you have a major credit card in order to write
a check!  And they copy all of the numbers onto the back of the check.
Who knows who all has access to your check before it gets deposited.

-- 
	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
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