At 01:41 PM 1/6/2010, you wrote:
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:44:53 -0500
From: Chris Dunford <seed...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: new bank and a mint
There was a significant problem not long ago,
especially in major cities, with wait staff who
had handheld card readers. They'd quietly swipe
cards and sell the information. I don't know if this is
still a big problem--perhaps the buyers have
mostly moved on to online hacking--but it
certainly was a problem a few years ago.
Anyway, the main point is that there are those
who won't use cards online because it's "unsafe"
but will happily hand their cards over to some
guy they don't know, probably with multiple body
piercings. That ain't safe either.
At BofA, I have their visa card and they offer
ShopSafe® is their free service for Online
Banking customers that allows you to create a
unique, temporary account number for online purchases.
You specify the max amount and the expiration date for the shopsafe card
and you print out a replica of the card with all the data necessary to
on-line shop with the safety of knowing that it can only be used to the max
you specify and one time and it expires..
Rich
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