Tesco change their credit card login

Consumerist

zerog wrote: »

tesco requires you to set a flash cookie if you want to avoid the phone verification step. you can selectively clear everything else and just keep the tesco flash cookie if you want (i don't, because i'd prefer tesco to pay 1p or whatever to send me a text every time i log on)

I was not given any such option.

I don't know how much it costs Tesco to send a letter but probably more than for a text message.

Gromitt

Consumerist wrote: »

I was not given any such option.

It's a flash cookie, it's stored on your PC as long as you have an up-to-date version of Adobe Flash installed and your browser doesn't delete cookies on session end. Tesco always send the cookie, but your browser/flash must accept it.

Fingerbobs

pvt wrote: »

What risk is posed by someone hacking your CC account? Worst they can do is see what !!!!!! sites you've paid subs to.

Transfer a balance from their own credit card to yours?

bigadaj

pvt wrote: »

What risk is posed by someone hacking your CC account? Worst they can do is see what !!!!!! sites you've paid subs to.

Paying for !!!!!!, this is a moneysaving website after all!

Consumerist

Gromitt wrote: »

It's a flash cookie, it's stored on your PC as long as you have an up-to-date version of Adobe Flash installed and your browser doesn't delete cookies on session end. Tesco always send the cookie, but your browser/flash must accept it.

Thanks for that Grommit.

I checked the option to "remember" my pc, so that was probably it.

Unfortunately, Firefox add-on BetterPrivacy must have auto-deleted it at the end of the session. The add-on does give me the option not to delete but I am usually on auto-pilot when I close the browser and allowed the delete without thinking.

I'll be ready next time. Thanks again.

Gromitt

Its all done using files on your PC, so you could backup the directory whilst on Tesco and restore should you accidentally delete it.

If you use Windows 7, the directory will be something like:

C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects

pvt

bigadaj wrote: »

Paying for !!!!!!, this is a moneysaving website after all!

To spend any money they would need the card number, CCV, and expiry date. None of which are provided on the website from my CC account. And if they did the supplier concerned would be processing a cardholder-not-present transaction, so it's at the supplier's risk and reversible.

Fingerbobs wrote: »

Transfer a balance from their own credit card to yours?

There would obviously be an audit trail of which account the transfer was to, and thus the fraud would again be reversible.

bigadaj

pvt wrote: »

To spend any money they would need the card number, CCV, and expiry date. None of which are provided on the website from my CC account. And if they did the supplier concerned would be processing a cardholder-not-present transaction, so it's at the supplier's risk and reversible.

My point was that the Internet is awash with !!!!!! for free, and as this is a moneysaving site, why would you ever pay for it in the first place!