Credit Card Letter Addressed 'Dear Palestinian Bomber'

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Company Apologizes for Solicitation Letter Sent to California Grocery Store Manager

By CLAYTON SANDELL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2005 — Officials at JP Morgan Chase have apologized and promised to improve their screening policies, after a credit card solicitation letter sent to a 54-year-old naturalized American citizen came addressed to "Palestinian Bomber."

The form letter for a Visa Platinum card arrived earlier this month at the home of Sami Habbas, a grocery store manager from Corona, Calif. The words "Palestinian Bomber" appear above his address and the salutation reads, "Dear Palestinian Bomber." The document included the signature of Carter Franke, chief marketing officer for Chase Card Services.

Habbas is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Palestinian heritage. He told ABC News he is "extremely upset" at receiving the letter, pointing out that he has lived in the United States for 51 years and also served in the U.S. Army, receiving an honorable discharge in 1969.

"It's upsetting, derogatory and slanderous," Habbas told ABC News. "I have no idea how this sort of thing happened."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Business/story?id=1059341&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[Misunderestimator]

1. WTF?!? Wow... I wanna see a pic of the freeper they fired for that.

[tx_dem41]

2. Oops...heads to roll in the QA department. n/t

[PsychoDad]

3. That's just messed up...

Wonder if they'll find the one responsible. Has to be someone at the CC company.

[unrepuke]

4. Not nearly as bad, but a friend of mine had a hair dressing salon

called Antoinette's Hair Design, and received one of those computer generated solicitations that started out;
Dear Ms. Antoinette H. Design . . .

and my friends, the Whitbreads have a letter framed on their wall addressed to

"The Shitheads"


hahaha and:7 Hah!