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The FBI Warns Retailers About Thieves Armed With Foil
- amalag 13y agoI wonder who came up with this gem: "Climb onto the roof and physically inspect satellite antennas before approving big-ticket sales."
- superuser2 13y agoWhy not authorize transactions over redundant buried internet links? Why the need for specialized/proprietary satellite connections just do to credit cards?
- eurleif 13y agoDo they even need to use stolen cards for this? Wouldn't cards with random (but valid) numbers work just as well?
- abjorn 13y agoI'm not sure what it is about this article or business week that attracts so many...interesting comment authors.
- vampirechicken 13y agoSo they make a tin foil hat for the satellite dish and it actually blocks the signals?
- hamburglar 13y agoApproving a large credit card transaction on faith seems like a pretty questionable move on the retailers' parts. Don't the CC companies have phone numbers they can use to manually approve transactions? Is it common for people to go into a gas station and buy a whole cartload of cigarettes? This seems like a crime that a little common sense would foil (get it? foil!).