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Re: 18866 compromised?

> Even so for safety I now use a Cahoot Webcard for on line > purchases. This Webcard is designed to stop what has happened > to you (as well as circumventing the main disadvantage with > CCCA, but that's another thread).

A Cahoot generated numbers is clealry a safer bet.

Sad to see that Cahoot changed the expiry period for these numbers to a pre-set 30 days rather when they used to allow you to choose the period.

Weird thing is that although Cahoot (and their pals at Abbey National) have worked on it almost endlessly, they simply can not get me a working PIN for the card. You would not believe how many high-up managers and deep techies have worked on this. Cahoot have issued me with new cards and PINs. They have closed and opened new credit accounts for me. But it seems there is something sticky in their systems which continues to prevent my PIN working with my card. Even when I get PIN failures at cash machines they are not being logged on their systems as would be expected.

So far I have had 100 from them as compo and a rather nice box of chocolates! Nice people.

Only thing is that I can't use Cahoot generated card number for

18866.
Reply to
Stefan -
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Sorry, I maybe missed this among the 3434241234 threads on the subject: why can't you?

Reply to
Andrew Fenton

The Cahoot generated credit card number is best for one-off payments.

If you generate a Cahoot credit card number and use it for 18866 then all is well until the number expires in 30 days. So you would need to generate a number before you got each bill.

A while ago I bought a "block" from a US newserver using Cahoot. Although I am still using that original block, I now get regular reminder emails from the newsserver company telling me my credit card has expired.

Reply to
Stefan -

Sounds fine to me :-)

Reply to
Andrew Fenton

They'd probably cut you off if every credit card transaction failed.

Oliver.

Reply to
Oliver

This would have helped the OP in respect of all the other payments he mentioned.

What's the problem with doing that?

The only problem is that as far as I know, only Cahoot offers this service. It beats me why other banks don't follow suit.

Reply to
tim

Of course, so you'd change it every month.

Reply to
Andrew Fenton

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