Clarkson Prints Bank Details, Unsurprisingly Gets Money Stolen
Posted January 8th, 2008 at 09:50 GMT by Viper007Bond in Jeremy Clarkson
Yeah, this is 2-3 days old now, but I always forget to cross post stuff from the forums onto the front page. My apologies and here it is for those who missed it.
Back in November, two computer discs containing the personal details of 25 million UK residents went missing. Clarkson though was unconvinced that all of the hype over the ordeal was justified, so to prove a point, he published his personal banking account numbers in one of his recent newspaper columns.
Unsurprisingly, someone took those numbers and stole some money from his account by setting up a reoccurring donation of £500 a month to the British Diabetic Association, a legitimate charity.
Back in November, the Government lost two computer discs containing half the population’s bank details.
Everyone worked themselves into a right old lather about the mistake but I argued we should all calm down because the details in question are to be found on every cheque we hand out every day to every Tom, Dick and cash and carry.
To hammer the point home I even printed my own bank account number and sort code.
And guess what? I opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes £500 from my account.
The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.
I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake.
Oh Jeremy. Tsk tsk.
[Sources: The Daily Mail, BBC News, Telegraph]
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The Recent Downtime
Posted January 8th, 2008 at 08:37 GMT by Viper007Bond in FG.com Forums, FinalGear.com
Seems the sever decided to take a total crap. Took us quite a while to actually get into the server and then even more time to fix MySQL which was heavily broken. All should be well now though. Sorry about that.
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“Timewatch - Bloody Omaha” Torrent
Posted January 7th, 2008 at 07:02 GMT by Viper007Bond in Richard Hammond
If you’re like me and are outside of the UK, you can snag a rip of Timewatch’s “Bloody Omaha” documentary hosted by Richard Hammond right here.
More details about the documentary can be found on the BBC’s website.
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Richard Hosting Timewatch Program On Nazi Battery Today
Posted January 6th, 2008 at 04:52 GMT by Viper007Bond in Richard Hammond
Richard will be hosting a Timewatch program on a recently discovered Nazi gun battery tonight at 9PM UK time (GMT). Should be an interesting watch.
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