How Stupid is this??
09-29-2005, 05:04 PM
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How Stupid is this?? AFP Photo of Katrina Debit Card #: Priceless
5145-0699-9266-5980 expiration 05/07. Got it?
Astrodome: Within two minutes of AFP photographer Stanly Honda
electronically publishing a photo of Katrina victim Latesha Vinette holding
up her Red Cross debit card, Ms. Vinette was paged by the management of
Reliant stadium to receive a call from Mastercard asking about cash
advances totally $65,237, the attempted purchase of a Ferrari automobile
using her card #, along with hundreds of purchases from eBay, including,
ironically, camping gear.
"I don't know what I was thinking" said AFP photographer Honda, who
failed to obscure any of the card's digits, or expiration date in his
photo. I guess I could have just had her put her thumb over the first four
digits." Ms. Vinette's balance reportedly dropped from $2000 to .45 cents
in less than three minutes.
Ms. Vinnette, and daughter Mychal Boykins will now face a slow, certain
death from starvation and exposure, according to survival experts. "In the
good ole US of A, giving folks internet access to your credit or debit card
# is the kiss of death. "The Bush administration isn't going to be issuing
"replacement cards," said one official. "We'll let Stan and Ms. Vinette
work it out."
There's no "identity theft" here at all said a Mastercard spokesperson.
Ms. Vinette failed to protect the privacy of her card, and we're not liable
That's the beauty of a debit, versus a credit card, and why we've been
pushign them so hard."
A spokesperson for Capital One said "I warned the people of New Orleans
about this. The pillaging and plundering in our ads is all symbolic, this
is the real thing."
Credit card companies years ago began using cards with fewer than the
required numbers of digits on television and print advertising after
hundreds of quick criminals attempted to use any actual numbers. The
practice is akin to every television and movie phone number beginning with
the ficticious prefix 555.
This time, however, spammers didn't have to spoof websites, go phishing,
or do anything besides view the "Today's Most Popular" photographs section
of Yahoo!News, in which Ms. Vinettes card is featured prominently. The
photo rapidly climbed to the #1 "Most viewed" image of the section.
Stan has reportedly been put on administrative leave and will be sharing
a margerita tonight with former FEMA director Michael Brown.
5145-0699-9266-5980 expiration 05/07. Got it?
Astrodome: Within two minutes of AFP photographer Stanly Honda
electronically publishing a photo of Katrina victim Latesha Vinette holding
up her Red Cross debit card, Ms. Vinette was paged by the management of
Reliant stadium to receive a call from Mastercard asking about cash
advances totally $65,237, the attempted purchase of a Ferrari automobile
using her card #, along with hundreds of purchases from eBay, including,
ironically, camping gear.
"I don't know what I was thinking" said AFP photographer Honda, who
failed to obscure any of the card's digits, or expiration date in his
photo. I guess I could have just had her put her thumb over the first four
digits." Ms. Vinette's balance reportedly dropped from $2000 to .45 cents
in less than three minutes.
Ms. Vinnette, and daughter Mychal Boykins will now face a slow, certain
death from starvation and exposure, according to survival experts. "In the
good ole US of A, giving folks internet access to your credit or debit card
# is the kiss of death. "The Bush administration isn't going to be issuing
"replacement cards," said one official. "We'll let Stan and Ms. Vinette
work it out."
There's no "identity theft" here at all said a Mastercard spokesperson.
Ms. Vinette failed to protect the privacy of her card, and we're not liable
That's the beauty of a debit, versus a credit card, and why we've been
pushign them so hard."
A spokesperson for Capital One said "I warned the people of New Orleans
about this. The pillaging and plundering in our ads is all symbolic, this
is the real thing."
Credit card companies years ago began using cards with fewer than the
required numbers of digits on television and print advertising after
hundreds of quick criminals attempted to use any actual numbers. The
practice is akin to every television and movie phone number beginning with
the ficticious prefix 555.
This time, however, spammers didn't have to spoof websites, go phishing,
or do anything besides view the "Today's Most Popular" photographs section
of Yahoo!News, in which Ms. Vinettes card is featured prominently. The
photo rapidly climbed to the #1 "Most viewed" image of the section.
Stan has reportedly been put on administrative leave and will be sharing
a margerita tonight with former FEMA director Michael Brown.
09-29-2005, 05:49 PM
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LMFAO!
no replacement
that sucks
and dude shouldn't have been put on leave either.
they photograph everything big friggin deal.
his suppieriors (spellling anyone?) should have noted that before the pics being posted.
or the site admin.
no replacement
that sucks
and dude shouldn't have been put on leave either.
they photograph everything big friggin deal.
his suppieriors (spellling anyone?) should have noted that before the pics being posted.
or the site admin.
09-29-2005, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by jlrz28
AFP Photo of Katrina Debit Card #: Priceless
5145-0699-9266-5980 expiration 05/07. Got it?
Astrodome: Within two minutes of AFP photographer Stanly Honda
electronically publishing a photo of Katrina victim Latesha Vinette holding
up her Red Cross debit card, Ms. Vinette was paged by the management of
Reliant stadium to receive a call from Mastercard asking about cash
advances totally $65,237, the attempted purchase of a Ferrari automobile
using her card #, along with hundreds of purchases from eBay, including,
ironically, camping gear.
"I don't know what I was thinking" said AFP photographer Honda, who
failed to obscure any of the card's digits, or expiration date in his
photo. I guess I could have just had her put her thumb over the first four
digits." Ms. Vinette's balance reportedly dropped from $2000 to .45 cents
in less than three minutes.
Ms. Vinnette, and daughter Mychal Boykins will now face a slow, certain
death from starvation and exposure, according to survival experts. "In the
good ole US of A, giving folks internet access to your credit or debit card
# is the kiss of death. "The Bush administration isn't going to be issuing
"replacement cards," said one official. "We'll let Stan and Ms. Vinette
work it out."
There's no "identity theft" here at all said a Mastercard spokesperson.
Ms. Vinette failed to protect the privacy of her card, and we're not liable
That's the beauty of a debit, versus a credit card, and why we've been
pushign them so hard."
A spokesperson for Capital One said "I warned the people of New Orleans
about this. The pillaging and plundering in our ads is all symbolic, this
is the real thing."
Credit card companies years ago began using cards with fewer than the
required numbers of digits on television and print advertising after
hundreds of quick criminals attempted to use any actual numbers. The
practice is akin to every television and movie phone number beginning with
the ficticious prefix 555.
This time, however, spammers didn't have to spoof websites, go phishing,
or do anything besides view the "Today's Most Popular" photographs section
of Yahoo!News, in which Ms. Vinettes card is featured prominently. The
photo rapidly climbed to the #1 "Most viewed" image of the section.
Stan has reportedly been put on administrative leave and will be sharing
a margerita tonight with former FEMA director Michael Brown.
5145-0699-9266-5980 expiration 05/07. Got it?
Astrodome: Within two minutes of AFP photographer Stanly Honda
electronically publishing a photo of Katrina victim Latesha Vinette holding
up her Red Cross debit card, Ms. Vinette was paged by the management of
Reliant stadium to receive a call from Mastercard asking about cash
advances totally $65,237, the attempted purchase of a Ferrari automobile
using her card #, along with hundreds of purchases from eBay, including,
ironically, camping gear.
"I don't know what I was thinking" said AFP photographer Honda, who
failed to obscure any of the card's digits, or expiration date in his
photo. I guess I could have just had her put her thumb over the first four
digits." Ms. Vinette's balance reportedly dropped from $2000 to .45 cents
in less than three minutes.
Ms. Vinnette, and daughter Mychal Boykins will now face a slow, certain
death from starvation and exposure, according to survival experts. "In the
good ole US of A, giving folks internet access to your credit or debit card
# is the kiss of death. "The Bush administration isn't going to be issuing
"replacement cards," said one official. "We'll let Stan and Ms. Vinette
work it out."
There's no "identity theft" here at all said a Mastercard spokesperson.
Ms. Vinette failed to protect the privacy of her card, and we're not liable
That's the beauty of a debit, versus a credit card, and why we've been
pushign them so hard."
A spokesperson for Capital One said "I warned the people of New Orleans
about this. The pillaging and plundering in our ads is all symbolic, this
is the real thing."
Credit card companies years ago began using cards with fewer than the
required numbers of digits on television and print advertising after
hundreds of quick criminals attempted to use any actual numbers. The
practice is akin to every television and movie phone number beginning with
the ficticious prefix 555.
This time, however, spammers didn't have to spoof websites, go phishing,
or do anything besides view the "Today's Most Popular" photographs section
of Yahoo!News, in which Ms. Vinettes card is featured prominently. The
photo rapidly climbed to the #1 "Most viewed" image of the section.
Stan has reportedly been put on administrative leave and will be sharing
a margerita tonight with former FEMA director Michael Brown.
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09-30-2005, 08:51 AM
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Editors are self-absorbed morons who think the world revolves around what they write about. Most of them don't know their *** from a hole in the ground. Every now and then, something like this happens and I just laugh.
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09-30-2005, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by dawnst3ar
Dont they have editors for this type of thing????
