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Who's your mommy

Remember the credit card prank we blogged about back when? Well, the same guy has come up with another entertaining way to publicize holes in credit card security. This time around, John Hargrave calls Visa and, when asked for his mother's maiden name, gives an unintelligible response - but the customer service rep pretends he got it right and gives him his account info anyway! The rep even tells him the correct maiden name!

This call is the third (and best) in a series; I couldn't listen to the other two the whole way through because Hargrave is pretty hard to bear in those. (The first call is enough to make you feel sorry for Visa's rep, though he too erred.)