Expensive WeekendsChthonic says he's still reeling from a trip to a wedding that cost him nearly £600; while a friend of ours hazily presented his credit card to the bar staff in a shady club in the Baltic states. You know how that one ended.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 May 2010, 13:03)
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careful...they've wised up dramatically. My friends who tried that on a ten grand bill in a casino bar were very well treated, up to and including the nice gentleman from the credit card fraud squad who asked them to check the thumbprints on their card authorisation swipes 'just to be sure' before starting a fraud investigation.
Sudden memory-return; 'oh, yes, ten grand on champagne and poker, yes, yes I *do* seem to remember that....'
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The thing is...I didn't try to scam them, my mate signed 'mickey mouse' as a drunken flourish to end the evening. But I didn't exactly come clean and I rode it all the way to a freebie - but if they're really dusting for fingerprints...well...I won't be doing that again.
Amazing really. They have all this amazingly high-tech crap over there, yet chip & pin is a step too far. Probably unforseen complications over the average American's ability to memorise a 4 digit number...
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Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Thu 13 May 2010, 17:40,
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You do realize the card company will come after you if they read this, right?(
Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 13 May 2010, 18:02,
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Yes...I have heard that the American Express Fraud Protection Team spend hours trawling b3ta. In fact, a huge international money laundering ring was smashed following revalations made on a recent qotw.
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Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Thu 13 May 2010, 18:06,
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I'd anonymise it anyway...Nice odds, but worth the stake?
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Google?Wouldn't take long for them to google something about the hotel, club, amex and bills for them to find this page (once it's been crawled by google of course). They do have people specifically to go looking for things like this...
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Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Mon 17 May 2010, 16:43,
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I'll take the risk...the story demands it!
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Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Wed 19 May 2010, 10:07,
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ErWe do have 4-digit PINs on debit cards, just not on credit cards.
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