more on Credit Information Stolen From DSW Stores

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:44:00 -0400
To: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Cc: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Credit Information Stolen From DSW Stores


American Express terminated their "Private Payments" program a year ago.

Have they provided a new mechanism for generating virtual credit
card numbers?

In my experience, the dynamic generation of virtual credit card numbers
is a feature offered by the bank, not by M/C or Visa.

For example, MBNA and Citibank offer the feature but Chase
apparently does not.

Discover offers a similar feature.

Monty



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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:50:52 -0700
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Credit Information Stolen From DSW Stores

you know both Amex and Mastercard (and probably Visa) will issue you
one-time CC numbers for use online.  It's a little bit of a pain, but
could prevent a lot of hassle down the line.

These services haven't been used much for various reasons, but if they
get a lot of use I'm sure the companies will make them less cumbersome
(which itself could open its own problems...sigh).

HTH,
-d



On 19 Apr 2005, at 06:03, David Farber wrote a description of yet
another identity theft which I have completely elided here.


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