[rescue] But what if the bad man takes my money?

[Ken Hansen]

You can get a Visa Buxx card (probably the dumbest thing I have ever seen) -
preset spending limits, designed for "kids", etc.

see the visa.com website for more info.

When I use my visa check card, they sometimes ask me if I want to use the
debit or the credit account - the *only* difference is that the credit
choice deosn't require me to enter a PIN - the money all comes from the same
account.

If I can't give my drefit card to a major corp (they get hacked), a small
corp (the employees might steal it) - why have one?

Ken

---- Original Message -----
From: "David Passmore" <dpassmor at sneakers.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...


> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 04:30:43PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
>
> > And what of when those reputable merchents get cracked, as happens all
too
> > often these days?
> >
> > So, it might just be a somewhat remote chance.  However, if that were to
> > happen to me, it would mean something like not being able to go to
school
> > this fall (tuition is sitting in my checking account until the school
gets
> > the check cashed which tends to take a few weeks for some reason).
>
> Keep only enough money in your checking account to buy what you need. It's
> easy enough these days to transfer money from a savings to a checking
> account when you need to make a larger purchase. This is a good policy in
> general, since if you have money lying around, you want it in some kind of
> interest-bearing account.
>
> David
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