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Thieves Take the Cake

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-eat-it dept.

Two very hungry German couriers ate a fruit cake destined for a German newspaper and in its place mailed a box of credit card data. The data including names, addresses and card transactions ended up at the Frankfurter Rundschau daily. The mix-up triggered an alarm, and police advised credit card customers with Landesbank Berlin to check their accounts for inconsistencies. Fruitcake must be different in Germany for people to want to use it as something other than a paperweight.

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  1. Whatever. by cromar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whatever, fruit cake is delicious. Just don't buy the cheap, sucky grocery store kind and you will be in for a treat or find a recipe and make some...

    1. Re:Whatever. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Whatever, fruit cake is delicious. Just don't buy the cheap, sucky grocery store kind and you will be in for a treat or find a recipe and make some...

      Fruit cake is handy stuff. My dog is still using the piece from last year as a chew toy and I used the rest to weather strip the windows. I asked for more this year so I could redo the doors as well what with fuel oil prices so high and all. It also comes in handy to plug mouse holes with. It's the only thing I've found they won't chew on.

  2. Stollen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It wasn't fruitcake, it was Christstollen. And no, that's not the same, despite what Wikipedia falsely claims.

    1. Re:Stollen! by himizu · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean, the cake is a lie?

  3. This wasn't fruit cake. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read TFA, it was stollen, a whole different thing. And while stollen may have its own problems (it's something like five hundred calories fora small slice) it's damn tasty.

  4. Wow. Hoax? by Ecuador · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I actually had to RTFA because I could not figure out what on earth this is about. So, two couriers decide to steal a cake sent to a newspaper. To COVER the theft, they replaced it with a package intended to a bank, without even opening it. That package happened to contain microfilmed (?!) of transactions.
    This must be a hoax, the sheer stupidity of "hiding" a CAKE theft with a second theft. Then banks sending around transactions and customer data in MICROFILMS????
    Am I missing something, or is this just a hoax?

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    1. Re:Wow. Hoax? by Sique · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No. It is for real. That's what actually happened. The couriers stole the fruit cake, and to cover it, they took one of six packages intended for a bank and relabelled it with the address sticker of the newspaper.

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  5. ACH!!! by snowgirl · · Score: 4, Funny

    ACH! Mine stollen ist stolen!!!

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