Maybe it is just to avoid the ~2% VISA/Mastercard/etc commission on credit
cards or ~50p on debit cards? Greed doesn't have a limit, you know...
Ekin
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Sent: 28 September 2005 16:14
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Subject: [data-protection] Mini Experts
I have just tried to pay a life insurance premium by phone to a large life
company. The policy is my wife's. I am thus "not allowed to pay by debit
card" because of "the Data Protection Act" (not so), but I may pay by
cheque!
I love it when a call centre person quotes the wrong law to me because
someone has made them a mini expert in the wring thing.
Apparently, after checking, it is the Money Laundering Regulations that they
now say prevent me from paying. But I can by cheque, drawn on my own
account!
Most money launderers pay money from a normal bank into a long running life
policy, of course. It is the way we all conceal our huge profits from
organised crime.
Tim Trent - Consultant
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