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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, august 26, 1981
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Swindlers devise new tricks
for consumers' bank cards
With the increased use of bank cards
and cards, swindlers and con artists have
devised new tricks to take advantage of
consumers.
"In the past, these con artists would
play on consumers greed, but now the
artists play on an individual's desire to be
friendly or helpful, said Janet Wilson, ex
tension consumer specialist at the Univer
sity of Nebraska. And they may take ad
vantage of an individual's carelessness.
Wilson said one con game using a bank
card is called the "double-dip scam. This
trick involves a respectable-looking swind
ler who ends up obtaining your secret code
and withdrawing funds from your account.
He does this at a branch with more- than
one automatic teller machine.
Pretending to use the customer service
phone, he tells you mat ine maciunc yuu
are using is out of order and entices you to
remove your card from that machine (the
machine is activated) and to continue your
transaction at another machine.
By watching you use your secret code,
the stranger enters your code in the first
machine, then asks you to put your card
back into the first machine to activate it
and returns it to you. The con artist has
just stolen money which will be charged to
your account.
Wilson said there are several precautions
consumers can take to guard against fraud
ulent use of their bank cards including:
Do not let anyone use or borrow your
bank card. The bank card is a powerful
financial tool which should be appropriat
ely safeguarded.
-Do not let anyone know your secret
code. The secret code is the only safeguard
built into the automated process to ensure
that the user of the bank card is an author
ized one. If someone is watching you enter
your code on the machine, don't hesitate
to cover your hand as you punch in your
code.
- Do not write down your secret code.
For your own protection, vour code
should be easy to remember without hav
ing to write it down. Anyone who has ac
cess to your card and your code has access
to all of your money.
- Do not walk away from a machine
without cancelling or completing a trans
action. Failure to do this may allow the
next customer to transact his business at
your expense.
- Never dip your card into a machine
for someone else. This attempt to "help
out could cost you more than you'd like.
- If you become suspicious or scared,
cancel your transaction and leave. Be sure
to report the incident to appropriate bank
personnel.
Credit cards also are experiencing in
creased abuse by swindlers. One common
abuse is perpetrated by dishonest mer
chants. In this scheme, Wilson said, the
clerk makes several blank drafts with your
credit card and later fills in different dates
and amounts and forges your signature. If
you find charges for purchases made in
cities you haven Y visited, youVe been hit
by a ring of sophisticated swindlers.
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Student regents try
to get vote recorded
By Melinda N orris
Recording a student regent's sentiments in the minutes
of the regents' board meeting is a violation of the NU
Board of Regent's constitution, said Regent James Moy
lan. Moylan countered the attempt June 20 by UNO stu
dent Regent Florence Langford to have the student re
gent's vote recorded on all motions brought before the
board. Supported by Regent Kermit Hansen, the motion
failed 7-1.
In a letter to the board, Langford stated the opinion of
student regents "is not to be construed as an actual vote
or an attempt to eventually gain a vote," but rather
should "encourage more participation by student regents
in the deliberation of the board," and to "ensure continu
ing input by the university community."
The constitution states the board will consist of non
voting student regents, Moylan said.
ASUN President Rick Mockler said that by recording
their votes, student regents would be accountable for their
positions, not only to the board but to their constituents.
Moylan said recording the student regent's vote is not
necessary because they can express their feelings in dis
cussions. Graduate floor flops
A residence hall plan to give UNL graduate students a
floor of their own fell through this fall.
This semester the third floor of the 5,000 buliding in
the Selleck Quadrangle was to be the exclusive residence
of graduate students. Last spring the housing administra
tion gave out fall contracts to graduate students, hoping
to fill the 24 available spots:
Unfortunately, said Richard D. McKinnon, assistant
director of housing, not enough graduates took contracts
and the floor was not going to be filled as they had
anticipated. The administration's projections had indicat
ed that the graduates would fill the hall.
"Each year we base our predictions (of future resi
dents) on earlier years and each year we got a bigger hous
ing demand for housing by graduates than undergradu
ates," McKinnon said.
As a consequence, the graduates were assigned as
before to one end of the third floor. The other end is
occupied by undergraduates.
Margaret Wenke, coordinator for contracts and assign
ments, said a door in the middle of the third floor separ
ates the undergraduates from the graduates. The housing
administration had planned to move the door to the end
of the hall making the floor for graduates only, she said,
only, sne said.
Correction
An article appearing on page 14 in Monday's Daily
Nebraska incorrectly reported that cash advances and
book vouchers are for students whose total aid or student
loans exceed tuition and fees.
The story should read that students who have been
awarded grants andor scholarship frunds which exceed
tuition and fees are eligible. Book vouchers and cash ad
vances aren't issues on student loans.