KitchenKitten99
05-10-2007, 03:11 PM
I am a big fan of this guy. Most of the time, he does harmless pranks. But some of them actually are more of a public service than a prank. This most recent one really opened my eyes. He is the one that did the Super Bowl Halftime Show lights prank that showed how average-looking guys could access the Super Bowl without too much trouble and a lot of money.
Do credit card companies really care about identity theft fraud?
Credit card companies don't give a rat's ass.
That's the conclusion I've reached after years of doing stunts like The Credit Card Prank, where I forged fake names to credit card receipts, and The Visa Prank, where dim-witted customer service representatives let me break into credit card accounts.
So when I got an offer in the mail for a new "IdentityMonitor" service from Citi, which supposedly protects you from identity theft, I laughed. First, because I was sure it wouldn't work. Second, because they were offering it to one of my own stolen identities:
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit-cards/
Do credit card companies really care about identity theft fraud?
Credit card companies don't give a rat's ass.
That's the conclusion I've reached after years of doing stunts like The Credit Card Prank, where I forged fake names to credit card receipts, and The Visa Prank, where dim-witted customer service representatives let me break into credit card accounts.
So when I got an offer in the mail for a new "IdentityMonitor" service from Citi, which supposedly protects you from identity theft, I laughed. First, because I was sure it wouldn't work. Second, because they were offering it to one of my own stolen identities:
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit-cards/