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.uk>, at 17:53:11 on Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Lawrence Serewicz
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>if a bank employee sets up the direct debit based upon having access to
>your account surely it can be revealed without concern for "Data
>Protection."
The bank can tell Mr Clarkson the details of his bank account, but I
suspect he already knows them.
The bank can probably also tell him the details of the Charity (being an
organisation it doesn't have any DPA rights) but once again I suspect
these are neither a state secret nor terribly useful in identifying the
prankster (who entered Mr Clarkson's details on the DD form, not his
own).
It's a pity the story doesn't mention the DD guarantee a little more
robustly.
And it's also a pity that few people seem to realise that the
perpetrator hasn't got any money, not would the perpetrator likely to be
able to set up an organisation capable of being the recipient of DD
funds. And even if he were, it wouldn't stay able to receive DD funds
very long once a few incidents like this happened and were identified as
fraud rather than pranks.
--
Roland Perry
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