Ah, so that's how Equifax got my details then?
Cops shut 28k sites flogging knock-off footie kits and other tat
Cops have closed 28,000 websites selling counterfeit goods over the last three years, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) revealed today. Out of those, more than 4,000 were registered using stolen identities of the UK public. Some 400 individuals have had their identity stolen and used in …
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Monday 25th September 2017 11:48 GMT Antron Argaiv
One use card numbers
The answer to online card fraud is the single use number. Works once, for the purchase you make, then never again.
My card *used* to offer this, but the website on which you obtained the single use number went through so many changes that it eventually became unusable. Javascript, Flash (or Silverlight), Catchas, multiple requests to login etc. I should try it again, maybe they've had an outbreak of common sense.
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Monday 25th September 2017 11:57 GMT tony72
Re: One use card numbers
I tried a virtual credit card (Entropay), the plan being that I'd top it up with only the amount needed for a particular purchase, and not leave it with more than a few quid balance. However I had a lot of trouble with it getting rejected, so I stopped bothering with it.
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Monday 25th September 2017 14:27 GMT Cuddles
Re: One use card numbers
"Catchas"
This is an awesome typo. "In order to prove you are human, please place your cat on the keyboard now". Best of all, it could actually work - the best a bot can manage is pseudorandom output, while a cat is one of the few truly random things known to science.
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Monday 25th September 2017 12:35 GMT 's water music
My Mum knitted my footie top
Don't laugh. My mum used to make football kit for me in the 70s. It's hard to know which was worse. The shame at school or the cognitive dissonance of hating someone on whom you depend emotionally.
Still, you can save so much over the licensed stuff that haven't hesitated to do the same to my kids
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Monday 25th September 2017 12:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: So...
You don't pay for government, corporations do and by that I mean campaign funding. They pay for what they want them to do we just then pay for them to do it after making the (in this respect) pointless gesture of voting.
That's why counterfeiting and copyright are always more important than your house.
Why do you think no government has ever campaigned on those issues but enacted laws once in power?
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Monday 25th September 2017 13:09 GMT Mad Mike
Re: what about..
I'm not quite sure why people think they have a right to something at a reasonable price? I agree the amount charged is stupid, so I simply don't buy them. If people stopped buying them at these prices, the profits would dry up and they would either stop selling them or sell them at a lower price which people are willing to pay.
Any vendor can sell anything at any price. It's a case of supply and demand (without competitive marketplaces anyway). Vendors always raise the price to the highest the market will bear, as that's the most profitable price. A fool and his money are easily parted and persumably those selling football kits know this.....
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Monday 25th September 2017 13:07 GMT inmypjs
They would say that wouldn't they..
What about the Credit Card companies issuing merchant accounts to these 'criminals'? They have a significant financial interest in not having their cardholders screwed over directly or later by identity fraud.
The warnings are false or greatly overstated they are just trying to scare you towards legitimate and expensive suppliers - same old same old.
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Monday 25th September 2017 19:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Reference the Romans and 'circuses and games'.
In all honesty, mate, if I could go and see religious freaks fed to lions, battles of life and death between convicts, and slaves fed to bears, then I'd be quite happy about taxpayers money being wasted on stadiums. Sadly we don't have any of that, and the taxpayers money is just a subsidy to support a few thick, poncy, over-paid, wankers with their limited brains located in their boots.
In my world, they'd be first on the field, trying to out run hungry leopards.
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Tuesday 26th September 2017 11:21 GMT tiggity
The average person
Will struggle to know a site is obviously doddgy.
Https .. well, certs are easy to get, so not really a sign of "legit"
As for pop up warnings ...
Have they ever seen the (almost everywhere) Verified by Visa stuff many "legit" sites use (& I don't touch with a bargepole). Requires third party web site js references for payment (did when I last looked at the monstrosity) i.e. just the sort of thing a dodgy site might use.
Non use of VbV is only reason I occasionally use Amazon for emergency purchases (prefer not to use them due to tax dodges & treating staff badly) - being out in the sticks sometimes online is only way to get certain stuff unless wait a month for the free time to visit the niche bricks &mortar store miles and miles away (not an option for "emergency" purchases).
Though Amazon needs using with care, plenty of scammers on there, hijacking real, legit small business selling "3rd party" accounts and flogging amazing deals from those accounts whihj obv have good feedback etc. (typically around same time as Amazon running promotions so people expecting a few too good to be true offers, & Amazon always slow to react to those scams)