mkmfpwfan Wrote:I back in the 80's filled out a JC Penny's card with only information that could be obtained from Dudley Moore's Arthur Bach charactor as a bet. Six weeks later a card came in the mail with a huge credit limit like 2k. I never used it. I showed the folks who I was working with at the time Sears credit. We all had a great laugh.The bosses said that Sear's credit checking program would catch this obvious fraud. Six weeks later I was issued a Sears credit card using information only found on Greatest american hero Ralph Hinkley. Suprisingly they were not amused at Sears--------Mark
Years ago, I subscribed to a magazine that got my address wrong -- wrong, but still deliverable. It wasn't long before I started to get all manner of solicitations with that same wrong address. In short, the magazine had sold my mailing address.
Out of curiosity -- to see what other magazines sold my mailing address, and who they sold them too -- my wife and I started to use different names/ initials when we subscribed to something, and kept track of them.
At that time we were sailing, and had a cat named Lamb Chop -- Lamber for short, although she thought her full name was LAMB-CHOP-GET-OUT-OF-THERE -- and we subscribed to Cruising World Magazine under the name L.C. Valentine. About six months later we received an offer for an American Express
Gold Card addressed to L.C. Valentine. We had a good laugh about that. We laughed even harder when a few weeks later we received an offer for an American Express
Green Card addressed to me!
They must have thought that the cat had a better credit rating than I did.
Ken V.