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Bank unilaterally changes password

Just seen a funny, but worrying, story on the BBC, a man who had the password ‘Lloyds is pants’ on his bank account had it changed by the bank to ‘no it’s not’. It was changed as it was ‘inappropriate’. He tried to change it to ‘Lloyds is Rubbish’ – or ‘Barclays is better’ but this [...]
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Gotta Have a bit of Bubbly at the Shareholders’….

It’s really bugging me how, in popular culture, shareholders are being painted as rich fat cats with evil intent. A classic example is the Nationwide adverts. A woman complains of being charged for taking her money out while abroad, and is told that that’s like their ‘tip’ which pays for ‘The Bubbly at the Shareholders’ meeting’. There [...]
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Natwest Three

The Lib Dems have started a campaign about the US/UK lopsided extradition treaty. Essentially the US can extradite a UK citizen without presenting probable cause. For the innocent, this can mean a multiple year trial (as well as expensive defence) in the US. In the case of the Natwest Three, as I understand it the alleged [...]
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Card Cloned

I was in Tesco yesterday and my card was not accepted. Odd, I resolved to ring the card company when I got home. I forgot. Today I had a call – and I rang them back on their number (they were fine with that, unlike a previous company). Yesterday there was a payment to someone like totaljobs.com [...]
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