And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I have a piece of AL I cut out of the bottom an AL pie plate from a store bought pie that I inserted into the place in my wallet that holds my chipped card.
Once I was working in downtown Seattle and got a bit of a mess on my shirt an hour or so before I was to make a presentation. So, off to Men's Warehouse I go, got 2 nice shirts on a 2 for 1 deal. Next thing I know I get the credit card bill for purchases at a few other local shops I never went to. Was it a crook on the street with a reader or a crooked clerk at the Warehouse? Don't know, so I called Men's Warehouse to report the incident, making clear I was not accusing anyone but figured that if there was a pattern of incidents they'd want to know. Never heard back from them. Did an online report to the cops and called the credit card company, too. All purchases dropped.
I've been in and out of Atlanta a few times for business in the last 30-years or so. Thus far, my phone has been cloned twice and AMEX three times. Once in Houston. Those were the only incidents in several decades. "Once is happenstance; twice is enemy action".
I have a piece of AL I cut out of the bottom an AL pie plate from a store bought pie that I inserted into the place in my wallet that holds my chipped card.
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Once I was working in downtown Seattle and got a bit of a mess on my shirt an hour or so before I was to make a presentation. So, off to Men's Warehouse I go, got 2 nice shirts on a 2 for 1 deal. Next thing I know I get the credit card bill for purchases at a few other local shops I never went to. Was it a crook on the street with a reader or a crooked clerk at the Warehouse? Don't know, so I called Men's Warehouse to report the incident, making clear I was not accusing anyone but figured that if there was a pattern of incidents they'd want to know. Never heard back from them. Did an online report to the cops and called the credit card company, too. All purchases dropped.
ReplyDeleteWill look into aluminum as a deterrent, too.
Made in China. So all data is safe from amateur American thieves.
ReplyDeleteI've been in and out of Atlanta a few times for business in the last 30-years or so. Thus far, my phone has been cloned twice and AMEX three times. Once in Houston. Those were the only incidents in several decades. "Once is happenstance; twice is enemy action".
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Ooopsie, meant to say in and out of Atlanta a few times A YEAR during that period.
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