Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

De sofistikated skam asked the caller for the login details for his Bank Of Ireland account, no transactrion on the face of the earth asks for this and there's about eleventeen million warnings from Bank Of Ireland about never ever giving these details out to anyone. Any account holder falling for it is an idiot and should only have a Simpleton Customer Current Account™ that requires a weeks notice and a comprehansive consultation to move more than €20 online.

A bit late with this, but did anyone see our Joe on the RTE news the other night? He was wheeled out with other assorted colleagues to give their tuppence hal’penny worth about poor old Charlie Bird. Unless my eyes were deceiving me, he was wearing a waistcoat with actual lapels. Now I’m no tailoring expert, but I thought that waistcoat’s don’t normally have lapels, or am I wrong? If they normally don’t have lapels, does this mean that this is a bespoke item made personally , and to his own design (probably by Louis Copeland) for the great man himself?

Or am I wrong, and this is normal?

I have an aunt who is onto her eleventeenth Facebook account because she keeps forgetting the password AND the email address associated with it. Facebook has developed advanced ways of getting the real person back into their account with a questionnaire. She regularly fails that particular Turing test because when it asks "Where did you last login from", expecting Dublin, or Ireland, she answers "the kitchen".

Many years ago, they came up with the ECDL, the European Computer Driving License, which was never fit for purpose. It instructed one how to use Word and Excel but neglected things like turning a computer on, where to find she Start button, how to right-click, etc. A true comparison with driving a car, it would have been like letting people drive around without them knowing how to start the engine or them knowing what pedals do or what the numbers mean on that odd shaped elbow rest.

A regular piece of advice given out is never write your password down, which many people abide by. That advice was meant for people in offices where there are shared computers, shared accounts etc. I have witnessed post-it notes on monitors saying "Admin p/w: 123456". For older or computer illiterate people, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having your passwords written down. A Russian hacker is not going to fly over, find your house in Wexford and break into your house, just to get your facebook password.

Some people really should not be online. Those same people absolutely should not do financial transactions online.

I had two elderly parents. Neither were tech savvy. Neither ever got scammed online. Both regularly bought books online - via Amazon. If Amazon don't have the book you want, just like if a book shop doesn't have the book you want, tough luck. They didn't go searching for it in the outer rim of the internet.

The caller yesterday filled in the form with his banking details, check mate. He was under the illusion which Joe should have corrected him on, that to access his account someone needs the IBAN. The IBAN is made up of the Bank ID number, for Bank of Ireland I think it's BOIF, your account number and your sort code. All three of which you would enter into a form asking for your bank details!

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And there goes my lunch.

The upward angle is not a good look for Joe. He needs more Downwards Dog in his life and less Bottomless Breakfasts.

OK. What was the point you were trying to make?

All this does is demonstrate that main frames were not the norm in 1994.

Sounds like a real exciting Liveline ahead today with Kay Tee

Too much info, caller.