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American Express disposable card numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P.J. Ponder)
Mon Sep 11 13:47:20 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 11:41:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
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>From zdnet.com:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2625758,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
Not much available on American Express's website, other than a signup form
to give them your email address so they can send you info on when it is
available.
>
>Security fix: Disposable credit cards?
>
>American Express plans to offer disposable credit-card numbers for online
>shopping amid continued consumer concerns over online security.
>By Jathon Sapsford, WSJ Interactive Edition
>
>September 8, 2000 5:45 AM PT <Picture>
>
>American Express Co., amid continued consumer concerns over online
>security, is proposing an answer: disposable credit-card numbers.
>
>The New York travel and financial-services company announced a new
>technology allowing registered holders of any American Express card the
>ability to shop online with a random number, rather than their
>credit-card number.
>
>The card number would be good for one transaction only, and shoppers
>would no longer have to give their credit-card number to merchants over
>the Web. The service, to be called Private Payments, will be free for
>cardholders and will cost nothing extra for merchants who accept American
>Express. The service will be available to holders of any American Express
>card within a month.
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