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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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Australians lose $88million to virtual card fraud last year, up $15million on 2008

Offshore sites are where Australians lost most of the total losses of $A88million to fraudulent card-not-present transactions last year.

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And with the losses some $15million higher than last year, the news isn’t good for Australian holders of Visa, Mastercard and American Express credit and charge cards.
Even worse, are the indications that the number of transactions

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Visa Australia launches payclick.com.au online payment scheme

Families with teenagers not old enough to own or operate a credit-card are the target market for payclick.com.au – a new, pre-paid, online payment scheme launched yesterday by Visa Australia.
That’s because parents can set-up linked payclick accounts that their children can use online to buy music, movies, games etc.
Visa Australia’s Greg Storey is general manager of

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$US 2billion deal sees Visa buy Authorize.Net payment gateway, Cybersource.

US credit-card giant, Visa, is the new owner of the Authorize.Net payment gateway used by tens of thousands of online shops the world over.
In a $US2billion deal unveiled last Wednesday the 21st of April, Visa said it had bought the NASDAQ listed Authorize.Net’s owner – CyberSource.
Joseph W Saunders, Visa Inc.’s chairman and CEO, said the acquisition

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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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