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$5million deal offers Australians shopping online with EFTPOS.

Australian consumers may soon be able to shop online using their EFTPOS cards.
That’s the promise of a new device developed by Melbourne inventor – Daniel Elbaum and his business partners in Point of Pay Pty Ltd (POP).
And the technology may be here sooner than you think.
The Bendigo Bank and Computronics announced this week that POP

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PIN or signature? Police screw up EFTPOS scam warning.

Victoria Police got it badly wrong last week with a warning that consumers should avoid using their PIN numbers, and always sign for their EFTPOS transactions.
And offiical statistics don’t bear out the claim by Senior Detective Sergeant Bill Nash, from the Victoria Police Fraud Squad, that Australians had lost $80million to sophisticated ‘skimming’ attacks on

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Australian EFTPOS terminals targeted in skimming attacks

An international organised crime network is stealing PIN and account numbers in attacks on EFTPOS terminals at major Australian retailers.

Michael Outram, CEO of the Australian Crime Commission, said this week that skimming devices installed in EFTPOS terminals are capturing customer card information and Personal Identification Numbers (PINs).Counterfeit cards are being created with the information and

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Visa, Mastercard win debit interchange reprieve. Slow death of Australian EFTPOS continues.

Despite a lot of noise, bluff and posturing, the RBA’s final decision on debit interchange (announced on the 27th November as a decision of its Payments Systems Board), changes nothing.

On the face of it, of course, the announcement looks and sounds like change. It says that multi-laterally negotiated interchange fees on EFTPOS transactions can now be

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Visa announces plan to phase out signatures for credit-card authentication

Signing for your credit-card payment at a restaurant or in a shop is to be phased out. And all Australian EFTPOS terminals will have to read chip-cards by April 2012.
The changes were announced by Visa earlier this week in the latest instalment of its plans to migrate all Australian card holders and merchants to chip technology.
“From

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