[rescue] several second lag...

[Ken Hansen]

All these crimes have existed for years, well before the Internet was
available. This is nothing new.

You will, I suspect have a much more enjoyable passage through this life if
you choose to believe that *everyone* is not out to get you... Just an
opinion, YMMV.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...


> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:15:33PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Get a PayPal Mac card, and use it for purchases (or a Mac card that can
be
> > used as a Visa - many banks offer these types of cards - called Visa
Check
> > cards, IIRC).
> >
> > You have no excuse young man!
>
> OK, so these visa check cards.  Every points that out.  Here is the
> problem.  With a visa check card, when the money is taken out, it is
> gone.  It is like someone stealing and forging one of your checks, but
> easier to do.  So, when someone rips you off (happened to friends already
> for really large amounts of cash) it is you that eats the loss, not the
> bank, like with regular credit cards.
>
> Now, what has recently come to my attention is that on an increasing
> number of web sites, something called electronic checks can be used, where
> you enter info off of a real check like rounting number, and other stuff,
> and the web site can use that check without having it in their
> posession.  As far as I can tell, there is nothing keeping the check out
> boy at local stores from picking out a small check and using it's
> information to buy large items on the web.  And I rather suspect that it
> also has the same effect of you eating losses rather than banks (assuming
> that you have the money in your account to cover the check).
>
> So, in light of that, maybe it is time to break down and get a real credit
> card after all.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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