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Fruit_and_Nut_Case
Fruit_and_Nut_Case Posts: 4,617 Forumite
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edited 18 October 2014 at 4:13PM in Credit cards
It can happen to anyone :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29664831
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  • Monkeyballs
    Monkeyballs Posts: 1,935 Forumite
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    Just as well his missus had a card to hand or they might have had to spend the rest of the night doing the dishes! LOL

    MB
  • sweetilemon
    sweetilemon Posts: 2,243 Forumite
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    Happens to the best of us at times... just shows he doesn't pay for the meals out often enough!
  • robin58
    robin58 Posts: 2,802 Forumite
    Monkeyballs wrote: »
    Just as well his missus had a card to hand or they might have had to spend the rest of the night doing the dishes! LOL

    MB

    No, he would get the Secret Service guys with him to do the dishes on his behalf!
    :D:D
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    The more I learn, the more I grow.
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    How little I know.!! ;)
  • Monkeyballs
    Monkeyballs Posts: 1,935 Forumite
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    robin58 wrote: »
    No, he would get the Secret Service guys with him to do the dishes on his behalf!
    :D:D

    Not that anyone would ever know, like ninjas riding foxes at night you'd never see them until it was culpably deniable ;)

    MB
  • SnowTiger
    SnowTiger Posts: 4,461 Forumite
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    The article also contains this:
    An estimated 100 million Americans have been affected by identity theft in the past year, including high-profile security breaches at retailers like Target and Home Depot.

    The population of the US is 317 million, so that's getting on for one in three. Although the term "identity theft" is quite broad.
  • callum9999
    callum9999 Posts: 4,436 Forumite
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    SnowTiger wrote: »
    The article also contains this:



    The population of the US is 317 million, so that's getting on for one in three. Although the term "identity theft" is quite broad.

    As is the word "affected". I'd wager that the vast majority of those cases suffered no fraud, they just had a card or two reissued after the breaches at Target etc.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 2,175 Forumite
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    Has Barack posted the contents of his wallet on the "What's In your Wallet?" thread yet?
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