Identity Concern, part 2

July 22, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Life 

About a month ago, I posted that the Bank of New York had lost my Disney shareholder information, and was offering credit monitoring.

Last night, I got a call from Chase questioning a charge on my credit card for over $7,000 on the Internet.  Somebody had my card number.  They didn’t have the correct expiration date so the charge didn’t go through.  Chase closed that account and is issuing me a new card.  I’m stuck until I get the card – even expedited (which they did because I’m traveling this weekend) I still have to wait until Wednesday.

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I’m wondering whether there are other questionable charges on the account.  I can’t see the account online because they closed it.  I’m also wondering how they got my card number.  I do this for a living – at my employer I’m the most likely IT person to handle a credit card fraud investigation.  But it’s still a pain when it happens to you.

10 Ways to Keep Me from Discovering Your Church

March 20, 2007 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Church New Member Process, Religion 

Via a chain of Decently.org to Church Marketing Sucks I have found a great article at Church Redone:

10 Ways to Keep Me from Discovering Your Church

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The point about use of the Internet is particularly true.  I did not consider any churches without at least a minimal web presence in my church search.  My preconceptions of the church prior to a visit were colored by the quality of the website.  Getting the web right is essential these days.