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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Credit card carbons ("No, you can't have them")
Message-ID: <718@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 17:54:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 17:54:13 1986
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In article <850@felix.UUCP>, bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) writes:
>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
>	{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug

Yes, this is irksome.  (Even AFTER the check is deposited, unscrupulous
bank clerks could see the number, too.)  But is the expiration date copied?
All the times I used a check at places which ask for a credit card for ID
when paying with a check, I never once had the expiration date copied too.
It might be smart to make a stink over not allowing your card's expiration date
to be copied, if this kind of fraud is what you are worried about.  Just show
that it is sometime in the future and surely that should suffice. (Maybe not :-(
Every firm that I have charged from which will accept a credit card number
(rather than the physical presentation of the card) for a charge wants to know
the expiration date, I presume as an additional guard against fraud.  Can some-
one clarify on this?  Surely this must have been chewed over before.  Mail, do
not post, if your answer has already been seen on the net--address is in the
signature below.  Thanks.
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