It seems that Australians are not protected from potential scams from change. org either.
What is that QR code doing there to entice happy snappers? What is in it?
From Wikipedia,
But why use a US-based website for a petition to the Australian government when there’s an Australian government website for such petitions? Any petition, regardless of where and how it’s created, would have to go through the relevant process (diagrams from the website included below) for acceptance of e-petitions and paper petitions. E-petitions can be created, signatures gathered, and petition submitted via that site.
which also collects and shares user data.
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It contains https://chng.it/FNj8HNkSk9
which then redirects to https://www.change.org/p/australian-banks-should-do-more-protecting-customers-reimbursing-scams-and-fraud-victims?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=qr_code&utm_campaign=petition_details&recruited_by_id=a112dcb0-e0e3-11ee-9a88-957d2820643e (which you will note contains a bunch of tracking - ignore the fact that the Discourse forum software has butchered the formatting of the URL that is too long).
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I’ve gone off change.org because after you sign up, it wants you to donate money and sign up for various other petitions. If you post a petition, and pay for it, I wonder if there’s the option of it limiting its interaction with people who sign up to just that petition and nothing more?
I appreciate that banks may not take scams as seriously as they should, and there have been the issues over how they charge and market to people. Definitely issues. But, there has been a situation where, strange to say, banks have been “the good guys”.
This is apparent if you read the inquiries into the casinos. Banks were trying to flag dodgy accounts with the casinos, and the casinos were trying to “fob them off” rather than engage with the possibility that the banks’ concerns were legitimate. The banks were going with the spirit, not just the letter of the law.
Mind you, it is possible the banks had an “emotional corporate memory” of the connection between gambling and fraud, prompting them to take the issue more seriously than they otherwise would.
Still, it is intriguing, in a “man bites dog” sorta way … banks “the good guys”. Who woulda thought?
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