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Most banks in the US have a feature to block non US entities from billing their card if they so desire. It cuts down on fraud I dont know how much and also mea
by LinuxBender 2y ago
Most banks in the US have a feature to block non US entities from billing their card if they so desire. It cuts down on fraud I dont know how much and also means that when fraud is being committed it is more likely that law enforcement can go after the people doing it as they may be in the same country. Not perfect, but nothing ever is. Some criminals are dumb and/or lazy. I assume non US banks also have something similar, to block countries outside of their own. Is this not the case? If this makes my bank Mickey Mouse then I guess that makes me Donald Duck or Goofy as I am very happy with the feature hence why I loathe the idea of disabling it for even a day.
- lillecarl 2y agoIn Sweden our banks block insecure international payments by default, those without a second verification step (using Swedish BankID). You can unlock your card for 60m to insecure transactions globally, mostly to deal with US recipients actually.
- withinboredom 2y agoMy non-us bank has a feature to block all non-3ds (aka, us transactions) outside of a 100km radius of my phone’s current location. I have to specifically authorize/exempt us payments (like GitHub).