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Combine this with something like BoA's ShopSafe "disposable" credit card numbers and POS credit card fraud could be practically eliminated. Consumer privacy wo

by Amadou 13y ago

Combine this with something like BoA's ShopSafe "disposable" credit card numbers and POS credit card fraud could be practically eliminated. Consumer privacy would also be increased because it will become much more difficult to cross-reference purchases across different merchants. (You'll still have to worry about Visa selling your purchase records, but one step at a time.) https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsafe.go https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf... http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m02/abu0137/s02 http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m02/abu0137/s02

rickyc091 13y ago
Are there any other companies / banks that have this disposable credit card concept? I know paypal had it years back, but I haven't seen any surface since then.
- pkaye 13y ago
  I know Citi Bank has a disposable credit card number feature though their website. You had to log into your credit card account to use it.
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chx 13y ago
Disposable credit card numbers in the USA? Inconceivable! An actually secure feature that is widespread in Europe found its way into the US? What has the world come to. Any Canadian implementations?
- dangrossman 13y ago
  PayPal started offering virtual one-time-use MasterCard cards linked to your PayPal balance in 2004.
  - RyJones 13y ago
    but they stopped offering them years ago. https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Extras-MasterCard-Archive/Single-use-PayPal-credit-card-numbers/td-p/84161 https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Extras-MasterCard...
- joezydeco 13y ago
  Discover Card offered it in the early 2000s, discontinued it in 2011, but recently brought it back.
- HelloMcFly 13y ago
  They're not new, it's just that the ease of disputing fraudulent charges combined with the low incidence of fraud made them mostly superfluous.
- Amadou 13y ago
  It is probably the same company behind both the euro and the us implementations. They were called Orbiscom out of Ireland, Mastercard bought them a few years back. http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/orbiscom.html http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/orbiscom.ht...
X4 13y ago
@Amadou you could directly message the authors on their kickstarter page or their contact page, with that issue. @HN @pg Is it an ethical requirement, or is there any obligation, that we as submitters have to inform page owners about their site being submitted on HN? Wouldn't it be very very useful to be able to get some kind of "subscription", that informs page owners about their product/site/idea/blog being posted on HN? Hey maybe even worth thinking about this as a business-model? I sometimes feel that I should've informed the page owner, about the load that's going to come, before their page get's DDoSSed, bu5 I's impossible to predict that, without the data you have in the HN 'backends'.

by Amadou 13y ago

rickyc091 13y ago

Are there any other companies / banks that have this disposable credit card concept? I know paypal had it years back, but I haven't seen any surface since then.

pkaye 13y ago
I know Citi Bank has a disposable credit card number feature though their website. You had to log into your credit card account to use it.

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chx 13y ago

Disposable credit card numbers in the USA? Inconceivable! An actually secure feature that is widespread in Europe found its way into the US? What has the world come to. Any Canadian implementations?

dangrossman 13y ago
PayPal started offering virtual one-time-use MasterCard cards linked to your PayPal balance in 2004.
- RyJones 13y ago
  but they stopped offering them years ago. https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Extras-MasterCard-Archive/Single-use-PayPal-credit-card-numbers/td-p/84161 https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Extras-MasterCard...
joezydeco 13y ago
Discover Card offered it in the early 2000s, discontinued it in 2011, but recently brought it back.
HelloMcFly 13y ago
They're not new, it's just that the ease of disputing fraudulent charges combined with the low incidence of fraud made them mostly superfluous.
Amadou 13y ago
It is probably the same company behind both the euro and the us implementations. They were called Orbiscom out of Ireland, Mastercard bought them a few years back. http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/orbiscom.html http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/orbiscom.ht...

X4 13y ago

@Amadou you could directly message the authors on their kickstarter page or their contact page, with that issue. @HN @pg Is it an ethical requirement, or is there any obligation, that we as submitters have to inform page owners about their site being submitted on HN? Wouldn't it be very very useful to be able to get some kind of "subscription", that informs page owners about their product/site/idea/blog being posted on HN? Hey maybe even worth thinking about this as a business-model? I sometimes feel that I should've informed the page owner, about the load that's going to come, before their page get's DDoSSed, bu5 I's impossible to predict that, without the data you have in the HN 'backends'.