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| posted by ServerGuy 101 days ago |
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Not sure if it is just me, but it seems the mad rush for using facebook dying off ?
I am glad as the amount of time that it took up during was getting silly.
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| The Designer |
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| posted by HKBloke 101 days ago |
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what's facebook ?
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| posted by Juno Watt 101 days ago |
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Is it something that happens on Macs?
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| The Maintenance Man |
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| posted by ServerGuy 101 days ago |
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Must be a bloke answered !!!
But no, it is getting quiet thank god.
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| posted by Lucas 101 days ago |
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Facebook was so 2007...
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
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| posted by AKA 101 days ago |
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Facebook = Scrabulous
yeah, yeah, yeah
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| posted by augusto_the_king 101 days ago |
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I don't use it because you have to put your real information there and that makes you vulnerable against cloning you credit card as bank database is not really difficult to get (see the news).
Database (Name of card holder + number of the card) + personal information (birth date + location + foto). See for yourself what you get.
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 101 days ago |
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s**t, how silly of me to put all of my bank and credit card details on Facebook. Thanks atk.
Watchu talkin' about Willis?
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| posted by smog 101 days ago |
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In what sense do you have to put your real name in there? I have an account just for the purposes of looking around. I think it's in the name of John Smith or Fred Bloggs or something. No real information in there at all.
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| posted by geraldo 101 days ago |
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but how can people find you then ?
atk you'll also need billing address for the card - would you ask by mail ?
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| posted by Juno Watt 101 days ago |
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
s**t, how silly of me to put all of my bank and credit card details on Facebook. Thanks atk.
Damn, I just remembered I listed my mother's maiden name there too, and all my previous addresses... why did I do that? 
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| posted by Mr Benn 101 days ago |
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Cos you're a silly-billy?
What the f*ck have you done lately?
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| posted by smog 101 days ago |
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geraldo,
Just on a technical point, when companies ask you to enter the billing address for a credit card it's all a sham. Accroding to our people who deal with the credit card companies, none of them has any means of authenticating that for cards based in any country except the USA. You can put any address you want on there in most cases for cards absed in other countries. If the number and the CVV2 (the security code) are valid and not on the "stop list" then in most cases the order will be processed.
The volume of credit card fraud is huge - that's why the interest rates (and merchant fees) have to be so high.
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| posted by geraldo 101 days ago |
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'pends no? - the local plonkers use the miserable verified by visa authentication, if the merchant doesn't support that they might give you a call (as they do now & then to me)
if you have to give billing address is mostly an offline transaction by the merchant
not that I really care - I do check my statements when they come in
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| posted by smog 101 days ago |
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Yes - verified by Visa adds a level of authentication. But not all local cards do it: HSBC does (on its Mastercard at least) but Citibank doesn't.
And, sure, if it involves physical shipping then it's a different matter, but for online purchases of stuff not involving shipping (say phone services or software downloads) then it's pretty easy to do.
We track IP addresses and all sorts, and have had people trying to defraud us (for telecoms services) apparently from an internet cafe in Cairo, for example! (Although of course they may just have been proxying through there.)
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| posted by Juno Watt 101 days ago |
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Proxying in Cairo... sounds groovy.
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| posted by AKA 101 days ago |
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they wouldn't admit to it though - they would remain in denial as long as possible
yeah, yeah, yeah
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| posted by Mr Benn 101 days ago |
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Badam-tshhh
What the f*ck have you done lately?
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| posted by Claire 101 days ago |
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Originally posted by smog
In what sense do you have to put your real name in there? I have an account just for the purposes of looking around. I think it's in the name of John Smith or Fred Bloggs or something. No real information in there at all.
Ditto. I use it to find people (ok one person whose number I'd lost but I knew was a Facebook fan). Fake name, free email account, zero personal info ... just like here.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the complete unimportance of almost everything.
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| posted by AKA 101 days ago |
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but you can't poke people on here
yeah, yeah, yeah
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| posted by Gimpmask 101 days ago |
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Originally posted by Claire
Ditto. I use it to find people (ok one person whose number I'd lost but I knew was a Facebook fan). Fake name, free email account, zero personal info ... just like here.
So you are not really "Claire"? 
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