Cingular systems open door to fraudulent credit card transactions

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> http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupda...ns_door_to_fra
> udulent_credit_card_transactions.html
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> Tech Update Web Technology
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> David Berlind's Reality Check
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> Cingular systems open door to fraudulent credit card transactions
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> By David Berlind
> June 8, 2004
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> Having often reported on issues relating to how easy it is to violate a
> consumer's privacy and the lengths to which enterprises must go to
> ensure the privacy of all of their constituents (customers, employees,
> stockholders, etc), I perked up when ZDNet reader Kevin Priester
> alerted me to a rather astonishing flaw in Cingular's newly launched
> online account management system.
>
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> In an e-mail to me, Priester wrote, "I figured you might like this.
> Cingular has now implemented a new feature on their site that will
> allow you to look up basic account information with only a cell number
> and a zip code." That, by itself, is of course a privacy violation. But
> it gets worse. Kevin's note went on to say, "Once you find that basic
> account information, if the account holder has ever paid on
> Cingular.com you can pay their bill for them using their Credit Card or
> bank account. You can also pay their bill with their funds and as much
> of their funds as you would like." Later, via telephone, Priester
> informed me that the same security hole was available for exploitation
> via Cingular's telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) system
> through 1-866-CINGULAR.

Sounds like the same defect Time-Warner Cable has.

I regularly use the web site of my credit card company to be aware of
what charges are showing up, and once or twice a year quickly dispute
anything questionable, 90% + of which have been resolved in my favor.

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> Little Scottie, the cell phone pitch man on the payroll wrote:

Which payroll? Or are you jealous because I'm on a payroll?

>
> CONSUMER REPORTS ON CINGULAR BILLING DISPUTES
>
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupda...nsactions.html
> http://www.consumeraffairs.com/cell_...r_billing.html
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> TRUSTe's Maier says that in addition to standard sets of best practices
> that TRUSTe has published for merchants interested in protecting the
> privacy of their customers, TRUSTe is also drafting a set of security
> guidelines.
>
> Cingular is not a TRUSTe licensee.

As are many other companies- and TRUSTe is far from the industry standard.
You don't research very well. That would explain your lack of understanding
about everything you have whined about over the last two weeks, and would
also explain why you don't understand the cellular plan that you signed up
for. It must suck to be so miserable and to be such an uneducated
consumer.