Thanks for the URL Greg. That law enforcement officials caution against such a far-fetched idea isn't reassuring. I can think of more likely ways a credit card number could be stolen. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 2nd ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: cell phone cam > From: Gregory Fraser <Gregory.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, April 27, 2005 9:52 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Ahhh...the lure of urban legends - Making your world a scarier place for over 40 years! > http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_camera_cell_phone.htm. > > Greg Fraser > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of trevor cunningham > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 9:17 AM > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > Subject: RE: cell phone cam > > > Here's what you do Alan, > > Scan both sides of your credit card and email the file to the list...all of us with phone cams can try out your experiment and hopefully prove you the grand vizier! > > Cheers...Trevor > > lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Julian, > > I don't think *anything* is possible. I want someone to show me a clear > picture of a credit card made with a cell phone that has all the > information needed to make an on-line or phone purchase. A more likely > senario is to simply read the numbers to a cell's voice mail. Also, I > find it hard to believe that someone could easily get all nineteen > numbers from a phone card, as you say, with enough success to make > using them a risk. > > AZ > > Card Carrying Skeptic > > > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: cell phone cam > > From: Julian > > Date: Tue, April 26, 2005 5:38 pm > > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > > > > > > >Cell phone shooters, > > > > > >There is an email circulating in these parts RE sly trick to obtain > > >credit card number from unsuspecting patron. The cashier handles the > > >transaction while talking casually on cell phone. Unnoticed by the > > >customer, cashier snaps a picture of the credit card and sends it to > > >cohort. > > > > > >OK, at first blush, this sounds like another thing to be worried about. > > >But think about it. Can a cell phone camera produce a readable image in > > this sneaky situation - or any situation? ... > > > > Anything is possible. Just keep aware of who's around when you pull > > out your card and who might happen to be on a phone within five feet. > > Good scam artists are very good at those things. In the 1980's there > > were people that would hang around near the pay phones at Port > > Authority in NYC ( as far as twenty feet away) and write down calling > > card numbers as the user would punch them in; and no, I wasn't one of > > them. ; ) > > > > Julian > > > > -- > > > > > > "The optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds. > The pessimist fears it's true" - J Robert Oppenheimer > <http://geocities.com/tr_cunningham> > http://www.geocities.com/tr_cunningham <http://geocities.com/tr_cunningham> > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
