I was sitting in a meeting room in Cambridge when a photograph of a cat in a jigsaw box appeared on the whiteboard.
“Is this your cat?” anti-fraud expert Steve Goddard asked.
I nodded.
“Is he called Chester?” he asked.
I nodded again.
So began a whistle-stop tour of my life online. My delight at seeing my cat’s sit-down protest against my puzzle addiction slowly turned to unease about the overall picture that Goddard, who works for a company called Featurespace, which detects and prevents scams, was piecing together.
In the next five minutes, I discovered that details of my school lunchtime