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unusual facts about credit cards



Hasib Hussain

About 50 minutes after the other bombs had detonated, Hussain appears to have boarded the number 30 bus, his bomb exploding shortly thereafter: driving licence and credit cards were found in the wreckage of the bus in Tavistock Square.


see also

Account number

Bank card number, the primary account number found on credit cards and bank cards

Bandit.fm

bandit.fm also provides the users with the ability to pay for content via a number of flexible methods including PayPal, giftcards/vouchers and credit cards.

Bank AL Habib

In 2006, Bank AL Habib became partners with MasterCard allowing them to issue credit cards for the first time.

Banking in Serbia

Every-day payment transactions are, with a few exceptions, made in Serbian dinars, and one can use various types of credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Diners, American Express).

Black Market Reloaded

Black Market Reloaded was a .onion hidden Tor website which sold illegal drugs and other illegal goods such as stolen credit cards and firearms.

CBNA

Citibank National Association, a bank headquartered in New York City, United States, backing a lot of store credit cards

First Premier Bank

In October 2010, the bank was cited for providing the nation's worst credit cards by the Consumers Union.

Kanes and Abel's

Twenty grand on credit cards, two divorces, and a repo'd Sebring.

Media and teen relationships

Similarly, Walmart sells underwear in the junior's section that say, "Who needs credit cards...?".

Merchant account provider

Now, very few banks issue credit cards and the industry is dominated by a few large issuers - Elavon, Citibank, Capital One, MBNA / Bank of America, and Chase.

Prepared guitar

Martín Irigoyen of Vernian Process and Erik Sanko, both of whom use electronic devices, hand ventilators, walkie-talkies, paper clips, aluminum foil, credit cards and tweezers.

Rudder v. Microsoft Corp.

Rudder brought a class action on behalf of MSN subscribers in Canada for, among other things, improperly charging MSN subscriber's credit cards violating the terms of the contract.

Samy Kamkar

In 2008, after Kamkar's restriction from computers was lifted, he demonstrated weaknesses in Visa, MasterCard and Europay credit cards with Near field communication (NFC) and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips built in and released software demonstrating the ability to steal credit card information, including name, credit card number, and expiration date, wirelessly from these cards.

Square, Inc.

The original inspiration for Square occurred to Jack Dorsey in 2009 when James McKelvey (a St. Louis friend of Dorsey at the time) was unable to complete a $2,000 sale of his glass faucets and fittings because he could not accept credit cards.

Stamp duty

In the Republic of Ireland stamp duties are levied on various items including (but not limited to) credit cards, debit cards, ATM cards, cheques, property transfers, and certain court documents.

Taxation in the Republic of Ireland

Stamp duty is charged on the conveyance of residential property, non-residential property, and long leases, and also on company share transfers, bank cheques and cards (i.e. ATM cards and credit cards), and insurance policies.

William J. McCorkle

William and Chantal McCorkle were charged in a multi-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, laundering money, using fraudulently obtained credit cards, and using a false Social Security number.