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WARNING! You may be liable for bank fraud without updated anti-virus & spyware.
The Banking Code’s long stated those using any bank facilities online should “use up-to-date anti-virus and spyware software and a personal firewall.” Yet the Guardian’s just spotted that added in March was “If you act without reasonable care, and this causes losses, you may be responsible for them”, which then uses the anti-virus bit as an example. The British Bankers’ Association says this was a clarification, yet it’s a salutary warningThey are pushing internet banking to the extent it is almost impossible to do your banking in any other way. How can they then penalise people if they are the victim of hackers and identity theft? It is surely up to the banks to ensure that their internet banking facilities are safe for us all to use. The onus should be on them, not on the consumer.
They are all a load of to55ers anyway, the more money they can make out of joe public the better. I am thinking of taking all my money out of my bank account and converting it to strawberries and rice. I hear that there is a shortage of the latter, and the former are doing very well in the supermarkets right now for some reason.
Failing that, I shall set myself up in business selling anti-identity theft packages on the beach with the help of a friendly local tattoo artist (we are going to tattoo on easily identifying marks which will show up on photos such as the word GUM or TARP on the forehead) or maybe selling pet pebbles with stuck on horns or angels wings for hen and stag parties.
You could be onto a winner with the strawberries, Ive heard people moaning that the british crops aint so good this year, so if you can grow some quality ones in time for wimbledon you could become a millionaire.
Banks are so scared at the moment what with the charges case still going on, they have to re-coup the costs if they are to lose.
They did lose
should find out next month if we are quids in :D/
@pete wrote:
They did lose
Have you any idea how many parts there are to the case? They are no where near winning.
Didnt mean that in a patronising way atall btw.
Unless the banks appeal the judge decided that the Office of Fair Trading can rule on the fairness of the charges
that is only a tiny part of the whole case though.
We have a pile of files at work awaiting the outcome. It will be a while until the final judgment on the overall issue.
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