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Subject: [OM] Re: : [OT]FYO but may be urban legend
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:31:26 -0800

On Jan 15, 2004, at 2:38 PM, ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:

>
> I worked 30 years in the police department, and quite a few as a 
> detective,
> and I can tell you positively that no credit card company ever tells 
> you to
> file a police report. They handle everything in house. They weren't 
> rude to us,
> but they always declined to cooperate even when we'd arrest someone 
> who had
> thousands and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in their 
> posession that
> they had just stolen with credit cards. They don't even assist us in
> determining which store the goods were taken from, so most of the time 
> the stuff filled
> up our evidence lockers and we couldn't find out where the stuff 
> belonged to
> at least give the stuff back to the stores. I'm talking tons of 
> designer suits,
> electronics everything. The credit companies just write it off and 
> pass it
> back to you in the form of higher interest rates. I guess they can't 
> be bothered
> testifying all around the country in case after case.

That was my experience with a stolen card. Visa was not interested at 
all in reporting the theft to the police or in any information about 
who had it. I knew who stole it.

Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA



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