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...wife, a Slovakian national, lost her visa to come to the United States because of this debt, Kiley said...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Management Troubles Darken HIID's Future | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

...information about yourself before you can purchase anything. There goes the impulse buy. But that's how checkout works at most e-commerce sites. And that's where about a quarter of e-shoppers lose interest. Wouldn't it be so much easier if you could swipe your Visa card and be done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digital Wallets Can Help Holiday Shoppers | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

...PLAYERS] --The Lenders Credit-card companies like Visa and MasterCard and the banks that issue the cards, plus mortgage and finance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Finance: The Buyer's Guide to Congress | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole heck of a lot to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Shop Online? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...wait: Visa reports that roughly 8 cents of every $100 spent online is lost to fraud - more, if only slightly, than the 7 cents per $100 lost in the bricks-and-mortar world. So why shouldn't consumers be concerned? Answer: The perpetrators, by and large, are not hackers snatching credit-card numbers out of cyberspace. Typically, they tend to be the same old Dumpster divers and mail thieves they've always been, stealing card numbers off receipts and bills and then trying to pass as the cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Shop Online? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

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