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Straight Out of “Catch Me If You Can”

  • Posted on May 17th, 2007
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  • Daily News In The Wallet

We lead today’s Bad Me posting with a story straight out of the popular movie “Catch Me If You Can.” It seems that “Check Washing” is back in vogue with the bad guys. This is the technique where criminals wash the ink off a check and re-use it. See this article from LA Times about how this old school technique is making a come back. In other news, TJX took a big hit this earnings season because of its massive data breach. Speaking of breaches, here’s a disturbing study on how corporations are not too worried about data breaches. Scary.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2007 at 1:02 pm and is filed under Daily News, In The Wallet.

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