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Chew tracked down a gas pump scammer that got his CC in about 3 days.
Wow! Great work, Mr. Chew!
Checks are easily traced.....if there is actual fraud.
I was the director of a retail program for the state for about 20 years. Yes, checks are easily traced, so are credit card transactions. However, building a case is neither an expedient process nor an efficient one. There are always a number of bureaucracies involved…banks, check processors, credit card processors, law enforcement's, prosecutorial offices to name a few. Each with their own systems for record retention/retrieval and different processes for requesting the info. The same holds true for every point along the way for that transaction to simply get from retail POS terminal to the financial institution that issued the check or credit card. I could bore you with even more detail about the processes, but you get the picture.
I get your frustration. I’m ready to start throwing people in jail, too. But, in most cases, the blame lies in the plethoric, over-the-top internal procedures of each bureaucracy, made necessary by a legal and judiciary system that unfairly favors the criminal. And it only gets worse after every legislative session.
The DOJ sure was johnny-on-the-spot arresting J6 protestors.
Of course they did! They needed a political football…and they needed it timely.
Great discussion, folks. I gained some new perspective from each of you.
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Chew tracked down a gas pump scammer that got his CC in about 3 days.
Wow! Great work, Mr. Chew!
Checks are easily traced.....if there is actual fraud.
I was the director of a retail program for the state for about 20 years. Yes, checks are easily traced, so are credit card transactions. However, building a case is neither an expedient process nor an efficient one. There are always a number of bureaucracies involved…banks, check processors, credit card processors, law enforcement's, prosecutorial offices to name a few. Each with their own systems for record retention/retrieval and different processes for requesting the info. The same holds true for every point along the way for that transaction to simply get from retail POS terminal to the financial institution that issued the check or credit card. I could bore you with even more detail about the processes, but you get the picture.
I get your frustration. I’m ready to start throwing people in jail, too. But, in most cases, the blame lies in the plethoric, over-the-top internal procedures of each bureaucracy, made necessary by a legal and judiciary system that unfairly favors the criminal. And it only gets worse after every legislative session.
The DOJ sure was johnny-on-the-spot arresting J6 protestors.
Of course they did! They needed a political football…and they needed it timely.
Great discussion, folks. I gained some new perspective from each of you.
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