Reply #29: well not to contradict the other poster but come ON

[amazona]

First of all, at least in the U.S. you can't lose "a couple thousand" to credit card thieves. Your liability is limited to $50 per stolen credit card.

If the person is not confused and actually paid the "couple thousand" falsely charged to their card, they allowed themselves to be robbed by the credit card company in violation of federal law. Giving fingerprints can't help you if you refuse to inform yourself of the very basics of your consumer rights.

I've had my credit card stolen. I've had "thousands" charged. You know what I paid?

Zero!

And no one has taken my fingerprint, this is just silly on the face of it. A real criminal would know to just smear his finger around -- that's how they got around this requirement in the 70s -- an unreadable fingerprint deters no one from stealing a credit card.

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