Chapter 14 Fake credit card factory found

Fake credit card factory found
By Monique Tamminga - Langley Times
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/90040847.html

Summary:
Langley RCMP arrested a person who was trying to buy a cellphone with fake ID at walmart. This arrest led police to execute a search warrant of property where 600 counterfeit credit cards, a laptop computer and various pieces of false identification were found. Police later found out that the labtop computer contained over 80,000 lines of credit card data that could be encoded into the counterfeit credit cards.

Connections:
In chapter 14 Cash Control and banking, we learned the basic knowledges of credit cards and personal banking. The connection between the article and this chapter is that both of them talk about credit cards. The chapter is only an introduction of using the credit card but the article warns us about the safty of using the credit cards. Credit card contain a compelete user's personal informations, what they didnt metion in this chapter is that when the credit card is stolen all the informations will be known by someone else, sometines other people can steal credit card informations even without stealing the cards.

Reflections:
I felt that credit cards are unsafe after i read the article. It's really easy to be stolen and used by someone else. I was suprised about the huge amount of credit card data the police found in that person's computer. This means our personal informtions and our credit card informations are really easy to be stolen by someone else and we might not even realize it. I can't understand how did he steal so many different creadit card datas. I think it will be safter if the cashier will check their picture ID when a customer is using a credit card.