You dummies. I bet you're all still using your own bank accounts, aren't you?

[Greg the dogsitter]

A fraudulent charge against my checking account showed up on my online register; I cancelled the card, and apparently charges continued to come in and were denied. No big deal, I think - B of A will credit the account and send me an affidavit.

The nice lady said that, often, folks generate and try random account numbers. Since - she says - card numbers usually have many common digits - it's not too difficult to get one right.

Hell, I program. I bet I could crank something like this out fairly easily. And to think...all this time I've been using my own checking account when I could be using someone else's! That's stupid. Why should last night's dinner make it harder to, for example, buy a new suit? If I use someone else's number, I could have dinner and a suit at no expense!

No expense to me.

(Bastards. Hope they DIAF.)

[Jem]

Greg,

Oh... that was your account?

Well I enjoyed the meal and left a big tip for the waitress. She passes along her appreciation, too!

Cheers,

Jem

[OWC Jamie]

Cashier at Outback here was stockpiling CC numbers for two years.
She'd run up just asmall charge or two then use a new number, so it took them two years to catch up to her.
Too easy.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I remember seeing credit card number generators as far back as 1998 for people to use to "verify" they were an adult to register for adult websites. That way they did not have to give out their real credit card number. I would guess that some of those were real numbers.