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This is scary. Someone got a hold of my number last month. I use my debit card for gas, cash, groceries, shopping, etc. I normally don't have more than $800 in that account. I do use it for online purchases, but only at very well known sites, like drugstore.com or amazon. The bank caught the thieves right away. They were testing the number at some resort in OR. They charged $20 and somehow it flagged Wells Fargo right away. They changed my A/C number and sent me a new card.

I'm very hesitant to use my regular credit card that has a $12,000 limit. Anywhere.

Cash is your friend..if you think otherwise you are a fucking tool.

Believe it or not you can still get cash from a teller at your bank and it's a great way to manage your money.

Heya Jack!

The 20th was the 24th wedding anniversary of Janet and I. We have now been married longer than when we weren't. A good thing, I hope.

God blesses a good marriage.

Such as yours.

Scott

trev wrote:This is scary.

I'll protect you, trev, as long as I can jack loads into the crack of your ass. I think it's a fair deal.

Why don't the banks simply train tellers what to look for and have them go out every half hour or so and check the ATM for devices or suspicious activity? I had my debit card skimmed a couple years ago, and I think it was some "kids" as they used it for some Netflix and restaurant coupon booklets. I check my BOA account daily and caught it in time. Be alert.

Back in the day, ya only needed to beat someone's skull in to take their money.

Now ya gotta have a PhD in computers.

What has this world come to?

trev wrote:I'm very hesitant to use my regular credit card that has a $12,000 limit. Anywhere.

Credit cards offer more protection than your debit card, you know this, right? Your debit card gets ripped, your money is gone and you have to fight to get it back. Credit card? That's not your money.

Lately I've been carrying quite a bit of cash on me for this very reason.

Not only that, but it's a helluva lot easier to balance the check book when you only have 3 to 4 transactions every two weeks.

Screw_Michigan wrote:Credit cards offer more protection than your debit card, you know this, right? Your debit card gets ripped, your money is gone and you have to fight to get it back. Credit card? That's not your money.

Heed this man's wisdom.

-Guntslinger

Y2K wrote:Cash is your friend..if you think otherwise you are a fucking tool.

Believe it or not you can still get cash from a teller at your bank and it's a great way to manage your money.

I'm thinking that in this climate, with the economy on the verge of collapsing and uncertainty everywhere, gold is the way to go. It soon may be the only acceptable currency.

Glenn Beck recommends Goldline International. That's good enough for me.

Mikey wrote:Glenn Beck recommends Goldline International. That's good enough for me.

Can't knock his wisdom. Repping a gold company to his customer base, basically a bunch of poptahs that think the nation's economic system is going to collapse, is genius.

Mikey wrote:

Y2K wrote:Cash is your friend..if you think otherwise you are a fucking tool.

Believe it or not you can still get cash from a teller at your bank and it's a great way to manage your money.

I'm thinking that in this climate, with the economy on the verge of collapsing and uncertainty everywhere, gold is the way to go. It soon may be the only acceptable currency.

Or stocking up on beef jerky and bullets for the coming class wars....... :D

My money was not "gone" when my debit card was skimmed. I paid for nothing they charged. I use it all the time and seldom carry more than $25 in cash. If the economy really collapses and/or goes into a spiral of hyperinflation, we are all screwed. I worry more about some jackass sending me to the morgue in a car crash.

Wolfman wrote:My money was not "gone" when my debit card was skimmed. I paid for nothing they charged.

Technically, it was. Your bank and/or Visa/MC reimbursed you.

Wolfman wrote:My money was not "gone" when my debit card was skimmed.

There must be a BSmack reset in there somewhere.