1996-07-22 - Re: Credit Card to eCash

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: BMCarpenter@trevecca.edu (Myers W. Carpenter)
Message Hash: ef372b03c6d6d5278a71c2dd0d036133bba7373ce9b55182bf9711f7770cb70f
Message ID: <199607220232.VAA21581@homeport.org>
Reply To: <v03007600ae1866520123@[205.219.251.54]>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-22 03:36:18 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:36:18 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:36:18 +0800
To: BMCarpenter@trevecca.edu (Myers W. Carpenter)
Subject: Re: Credit Card to eCash
In-Reply-To: <v03007600ae1866520123@[205.219.251.54]>
Message-ID: <199607220232.VAA21581@homeport.org>
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Well, theres the 90 days of float from the credit card clearing house,
and then the chance of non-payment.  The fraud issue (steal a credit
card, get $10,000 in e-cash...)

Adam


| 	What would be the problems in setting up a web site to make a
| charge to a Credit Card/ATM card number and return Cash, like an ATM for
| the net?

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume






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