Credit Cards and Matching Identity Don’t Seem to Matter

Posted by Peter Brady on Tue 19th December 2006 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Credit News

Interesting story from KSLA News12 which poses some worrying concerns:

“We sent KSLA News12 producer Lori Burrell on a shopping trip to randomly selected stores across the area. We sent her with an American Express card not in her name, but in reporter Sara Gouedy’s name. Our cameras caught Lori ringing up the card, with no questions about her identification from store employees. In one case, Lori was even asked for identification, but allowed to make a purchase when she said the card she was using was her sisters. In fact, in the process of about 15 minutes, she was able to charge about 50 dollars to a card not in her name.”

Full story at KSLA News12.

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