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Corrupt Indian IT bank workers selling YOUR bank details !

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    #11
    Re: Corrupt Indian IT bank workers selling YOUR bank details

    Snippet from the BBC:

    Other banks including Halifax, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Nationwide and NatWest, said they did not have call centres in India, so were unlikely to be affected.

    Meanwhile, the Amicus union said it had warned of the "data protection implications" of offshoring financial services.

    "Companies that have offshore jobs need to reflect on their decision and the assumption that cost savings benefiting them and their shareholders outweigh consumer confidentiality and confidence," senior finance officer Dave Fleming said.


    The Sun claims one of its journalists bought personal details including passwords, addresses and passport data from a Delhi IT worker for £4.25 each.

    The centre worker reportedly told the Sun he could sell up to 200,000 account details each month.

    So all you Barclay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB customers. Your security is worth exactly £4.25. You have been warned.

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      #12
      nationwide

      i'm with Nationwide - with no call centers in India.

      i suggest to you all that you should seriously think about switching to them.

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        #13
        Re: nationwide

        As Lucifer said. What is the difference between Indian workers selling data and UK workers selling it?

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          #14
          Re: nationwide

          Corruption is a way of life in India, plus EU has laws covering data security, where as India has no such legal protection.

          Plus £4.25 is probably a yrs salary in India.

          It's up to the customers at the end of the day. I voted with my feet and only use financial companies that perform all work onshore.

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            #15
            Re: nationwide

            Has to be said, these are p1ss poor back office systems that allow call centre staff to view customers' passwords. Not even a DBA directly editing the database should be able to view a password, never mind a phone answering gimp.

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              #16
              Racist Tw@ats

              phone answering gimp.

              Racist idiot.

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                #17
                Re: Racist Tw@ats



                "shame, racialist" (nods head, looks to camera).

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                  #18
                  Bank Call Centre workers selling personal account details

                  This all smacks of a story The Sun were trying to find but couldn't.

                  You could probably find someone to sell you dodgy account details down any decent British Inner City boozer.

                  As for Passwords - not usually revealed in their entirety to Call Centre workers.

                  Passport and Driving Licence details - not held by banks.

                  Finally, if it were that easy, do you not think some Eastern European gangster gang would have cleaned up already before The Sun thought of it?

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                    #19
                    Re: Bank Call Centre workers selling personal account detail

                    Are you trying to insinuate that Britains favourite newspaper, champions of free speech and unswaying supporters of the New Lie could be themselves, be lying?

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                      #20
                      Re: Bank Call Centre workers selling personal account detail

                      Racist idiot
                      WTF?

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