Australian bank issues cat with credit card!
This sounds absurd, but according to a report from Reuters it appears to be true. Are you sitting down?
An Australian bank has issued a cat with a credit card. The Bank of Queensland was found lacking after a security-conscious customer, Katherine Campbell, decided to test their security system that controls who is eligible for a bank account based on identity. I assume that the Bank of Queensland employ the usual money laundering checks, but they slipped up on this!
Soon after applying for a secondary credit card on her account under the name of Messiah, her cat, the credit card came through. Since Mrs. Campbell went public with her story the credit card has since been canceled.
“I just couldn’t believe it. People need to be aware of this and banks need to have better security,” said Mrs. Campbell in an interview with local media on Thursday.
I think the takeaway from this is not so much the security slip-up, but it is indicative of just how keen the banks are to get credit cards into our wallets.
