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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Then imagine that it is discovered that your card has been used, but not by you - that you are a victim of credit card fraud, to be precise. Even if at this stage your name is cleared you have still been punished for something you didn't do. And because many people subscribe to the "no smoke without fire" mentality, you may continue to be punished by parts of society for a crime you didn't commit.
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Very good point. My credit card was stolen by a postman! He sold the card and I started getting thousands of dollars in bills from around the country.
Proving that I wasn't buying things in California while I was working in Washington DC was easy. But if they had purchased child pornography with it over the internet.... Well, there would be no way to restore my innocence from that charge, even after they found none on my computer.