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To: Steve Lee who wrote (17451)	5/21/2003 3:01:02 PM
From: TEDennis	Respond to of 32883

I have no need to "remember" where I used the card. That information is tracked by the card issuer. It appears on every monthly statement. Card issuers also have their own fraud units that do all the dirty work of researching the abuse. There are some fairly sophisticated automated fraud recognition and tracking techniques in use. Much of the "narrowing down" of the abuse source is done by the card issuer prior to turning the case over to the authorities. Not only that ... folks who would steal this information from one customer's card are likely to steal it from multiple customers. Which means abuse on multiple cards all gets tracked back to the same source. "what a tangled web we weave ..." sort of thing. Whatever. I agree that the exposure is there, but I'm not surprised that it isn't a bigger problem. That doesn't mean that it's not a big problem. A lot of that goes on, but it doesn't get reported in the news. For a card issuer to fund an entire division for fraud detection, it has to be a significant source of losses for the company. Regards, TED