On Sunday 19 June 2005 11:39 am, FoulDragon@aol.com kindly wrote:

> I never saw how useful the validation number could be; presumably
> anywhere the 16-figure number can be stolen from, the 3-figure one
> can too.

I agree. Someone got my CC information and ran a $1,200 ad on 
Monster.com using my name and information, but with another email 
address. It was one of those financial scams that has people 
processing cheques and sending the money overseas. I didn't know 
about it until I started bouncing a lot of cheques. My bank helped me 
with it, and Monster was accomodating about refunding the money to my 
account, but what was even more unsettling to me was that whomever 
did it had my 3-digit validation number. What good are those numbers 
if vendors retain them in their records and then allow their data to 
be compromised?

Siri Amrit
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