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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    Heheh, brill

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    He changes faster than a TTL D-Type FlipFlop!
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Wasn't mine good enough
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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    ooooooh, clickable quotes.....hadn't noticed that before....
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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    Quote Originally Posted by J4MES View Post
    Wasn't mine good enough
    you have to click the bit that says quote for me in IE7, not the body of the quote.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    seems to work fine for me in firefox... how about you opera people?
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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    serves the smug git right

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    Hahaha! Excellent!
    1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!!!

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    Hahaha, thats so great

    The man is a legend xD

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    At least someone had a sense of humour when it came to actually misusing the data!

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    This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    The BBC's take on the same story.

    There's nothing on-line about it though. He was a twit and someone called him on it
    They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them.

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam



    Completely off topic, but does it really take that long to beg for mercy with sharp pieces of wood in your eyeballs?

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    He does have a point though - why is it possible for someone completely random to setup a direct debit using just your sort code / account number? all you need is a name and address. and this is the security on the direct debit (charity) website:

    [tick box] I am the bank account holder and I am authorised to set up a Direct Debit to Diabetes UK

    How is this a security check?

    ps - first link worked in opera

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    Re: Jeremy Clarkson loses £500 in online scam

    Quote Originally Posted by joshwa View Post
    He does have a point though - why is it possible for someone completely random to setup a direct debit using just your sort code / account number? all you need is a name and address. and this is the security on the direct debit (charity) website:

    [tick box] I am the bank account holder and I am authorised to set up a Direct Debit to Diabetes UK

    How is this a security check?

    ps - first link worked in opera
    he printed his full bank details in the paper, in a "quit moaning about your bank details being lost, nobody can do a thing with them" way

    frankly, he deserves what he got. if there were no risks, there'd not have been a furore.

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