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- From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
- Subject: misc.consumers FAQ on credit diff 3 of 4
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- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:42:27 GMT
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- Archive-name: consumer-credit-faq/diff3
- Last-modified: 19 Feb 1994
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- Please see part 1 for explanations.
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- 12c12
- < Last-modified: 21 Jun 1993
- ---
- > Last-modified: 19 Feb 1994
- 330,335c330,335
- < suite 120, Herndon VA 22070, or call (800) 553-8025 and ask for a
- < catalog. The card gives you something to show the merchant who
- < won't believe your unsupported word. The card has no legal force,
- < but at least you don't look like you're making things up. The
- < pamphlet does the same thing, but an 11"x17" piece of paper gets
- < kind of bulky folded in your wallet!
- ---
- > suite 120, Herndon VA 22070, or call (703) 481-1110 (their 800 number
- > is no longer in service) and ask for a catalog. The card gives you
- > something to show the merchant who won't believe your unsupported word.
- > The card has no legal force, but at least you don't look like you're
- > making things up. The pamphlet does the same thing, but an 11"x17"
- > piece of paper gets kind of bulky folded in your wallet!
- 726a727,735
- >
- > Even when you place the call, to a bona fide merchant (such as a mail
- > order company) never give your credit card out over a portable phone.
- > Scanners that snoop on these conversations are available for a few
- > hundred dollars at Radio Shack, and your voice can be received by one
- > for a far greater distance than the maximum useful range of your
- > cordless phone. Often these lines are monitored to obtain your credit
- > card, or your vacation plans. (How do they know which house it is?
- > They listen so often, they probably know your voice!)
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