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Mon, 13 Apr 2009
Hacking A Bank Alert
I had this crazy idea of setting up an automated alert to let me know when I'd racked up $1k on my credit card. I'm trying to support the economy by spending, but I'm also try to keep my spending under control, so I figured setting up a personal "soft limit" would help me to both.
Doing such a thing however appeared to be impossible. There were a lot of preconfigured alerts, but none which would be triggered by reaching an arbitrary limit. But then I saw one that could be exploited to serve that purpose. There is an alert that will fire when one gets $____ away from the credit limit. I set it to fire when I got to $My Credit Limit minus $1000 away from my credit limit. Don't tell my card issuing bank. I have this feeling that they would prefer that we don't set arbitrary soft limits for ourselves.
tags: financial, self-help, credit-card, hack