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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (73614)	3/11/2007 11:10:24 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

RE:"in fact, instead i write "ASK for ID" (with a heavy black marker" Good idea.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (73614)	3/12/2007 12:10:31 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 306849

yeah well I got lucky. My address on all my docs was obsolete. And that was VERY lucky. Seriously these crooks got cash from an ATM without knowing the PIN. Or they had to compute the PIN somehow, how I don't know. An insider at the bank? Who the heck knows. And when I called it all in, it is obvious this happens EVERY DAY, ALL THE TIME. Thats $1K or so lost, ne'er to return, all of which gets absorbed into fees the "regular" read: honest people pay.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (73614)	3/12/2007 9:39:09 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

My zip code is on my driver's license, so I can't avoid that one, but a dropped card would not have it of course (I found one on a walk recently). But entering the zip has only come up with gas stations (for me) and that is one of the most common uses of stolen cards. I only care about identity theft if my wallet's stolen, not the card use for which I am not liable if I report it within 24 hours (maybe even 0 then). A good friend of mine said never to sign a card, because then if a forger must sign "for me" it won't look like my signature if the credit card company says it really was me. But hilariously my father in law actually signs "Mickey Mouse" on those electronic pads at Home Depot and so on. And he's never once been asked about it...