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Subject: misc.consumers FAQ on credit diff 3 of 4
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,news.answers,misc.answers
From: adams@spss.com (Steve Adams)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:42:27 GMT
Archive-name: consumer-credit-faq/diff3
Last-modified: 19 Feb 1994
Please see part 1 for explanations.
12c12
< Last-modified: 21 Jun 1993
---
> Last-modified: 19 Feb 1994
330,335c330,335
< suite 120, Herndon VA 22070, or call (800) 553-8025 and ask for a
< catalog. The card gives you something to show the merchant who
< won't believe your unsupported word. The card has no legal force,
< but at least you don't look like you're making things up. The
< pamphlet does the same thing, but an 11"x17" piece of paper gets
< kind of bulky folded in your wallet!
---
> suite 120, Herndon VA 22070, or call (703) 481-1110 (their 800 number
> is no longer in service) and ask for a catalog. The card gives you
> something to show the merchant who won't believe your unsupported word.
> The card has no legal force, but at least you don't look like you're
> making things up. The pamphlet does the same thing, but an 11"x17"
> piece of paper gets kind of bulky folded in your wallet!
726a727,735
>
> Even when you place the call, to a bona fide merchant (such as a mail
> order company) never give your credit card out over a portable phone.
> Scanners that snoop on these conversations are available for a few
> hundred dollars at Radio Shack, and your voice can be received by one
> for a far greater distance than the maximum useful range of your
> cordless phone. Often these lines are monitored to obtain your credit
> card, or your vacation plans. (How do they know which house it is?
> They listen so often, they probably know your voice!)
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