Were they approached recently to give personal information or a credit card number?
Inside, from 5 a.m. to midnight, 200 telemarketers, trained to cajole callers into disgorging a credit card number, work the phones.
The point of the call was not, in fact, for us to bond but for her to secure a donation and a credit card number.
The only verification these sites do is of a credit card number claiming that the American courts have ruled possession of a credit card to be sufficient proof of adulthood.
The woman with a credit card number online and the other one outed for spending 200 euros on alcohol last month probably want to start doing some digital house-cleaning stat.
One might think all this frustration would be a quick turn-off, but surfers do occasionally conclude that the best way to reach sanctuary is to pony up a credit card number.
Sure, a fingerprint will identify a user to his or her systems, but what about the possibility of connecting a fingerprint to an iTunes account, a social networking or job-hunting site, or even a credit card number?
Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.
Starting in late 2012, the 55-person company based in Mountain View, California, will launch a private constellation designed to deliver orbital photos as a service: Just log in, enter a credit card number, and grab a timely shot of any spot on Earth.
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Consumers using one of the Web sites were asked to provide personal information and a valid credit card number to get a copy of their credit report.
BillMeLater, for example, doesn't require a credit card or debit card number, but it does ask for a customer's Social Security number and date of birth.
Which is why, in preparation for Nov. 27--aka "Cyber Monday, " the unofficial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season--stores are redoubling their efforts to draw shoppers to their Web sites by getting more creative promotionally and by embracing alternative payment methods that don't necessarily require a credit-card number or a PIN.
Ms. Menendez's run-ins with police dated back to 2000, when she was arrested on a charge of using a stolen credit-card number to make a purchase, the law-enforcement official said.
When a credit card company raises the number of miles or points needed for particular rewards, your already earned miles and points become, in effect, less valuable.
In this scam, the con man has already obtained a victim's credit card or debit card number, using a skimmer or other method.
ISIS, in contrast, will charge its various partners a percentage of each mobile transaction and has spoken of creating a broad ecosystem for mobile payments that could potentially include a number of banks and credit card companies.
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But a number of rewards credit card holders carry a balance, incurring high interest rates that more than cancel out any cash back.
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What's more, only 27.6% of consumers say they will use a credit-card this season, the lowest number since 2002, according to the survey.
Now, in a survey of more than 600 small business owners and executives, the Ponemon Institute has tried to put a number on the cost of credit card account fraud for those vulnerable targets, comparing the damage with the cost of physical theft by employees or burglars.
Same for when you activate a credit card over the phone, or call a 900 number.
But you might find it difficult to set up a new account until you have suitable personal identification in your new destination (such as a job or rental contract or social security number in the US), so make sure you have a decent credit card with zero foreign transaction fees to get you through the first few weeks.
Typically they ask the recipient to supply confidential information, like a username, password, social security number, or credit card number.
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But we both keep an eye on our joint accounts (which makes good sense for a number of reasons, including monitoring identity and credit card theft), and we both discuss how our money is being saved and spent.
The number of open retail credit card accounts reached a 31-month high in July, exceeding 175 million for the first time since December of 2009.
Customers will not have to fire off their real credit-card number into insecure cyberspace and will have a guarantee of their money back in the event of disappointment.
The Card Verification Value number is the three or four digit number that is usually imprinted on the back of a credit card.
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With the rapid rise in use of debit and credit card as a preferred mode of payment over cash and check, the number of transactions processed by Visa has grown steadily by 10% in the last couple of years, except 2008 when the economic downturn caused transaction volumes to drop by almost 11%.
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But there are a number of steps that consumers can take to prevent and limit credit card fraud.
Without a coordinating agency solving the problem for an unlimited number of providers (as credit card companies do with affected merchants), medical victims are stuck with convincing every doctor, clinic, hospital and insurance provider that a stranger is in the room.
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The credit card companies became subject to the laws of a state that placed no limits on how much interest they could charge their customers, allowed them to raise their rates on a whim, and permitted any number of additional provisions that made life immeasurably better for credit card dealers.
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