{"id":725193,"date":"2010-04-28T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005078"},"modified":"2010-04-27T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:16:26","slug":"visa-snuffs-out-credit-card-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725193","title":{"rendered":"Visa Snuffs Out Credit Card Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/visa-thumb-158x142-39800.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to stop a scam in which third parties make unauthorized charges to credit cards thinking they were signing up for a loyalty rewards program, Visa is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-20003489-261.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0\">putting up a roadblock<\/a> meant to keep information safer, CNet reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retailers will no longer be able to allow third parties to charge a customer&#8217;s card without the card owner re-entering credit card information, Visa said Tuesday. This is Visa&#8217;s response to one of the biggest scandals to rock online retailing in years. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation launched an investigation after learning that thousands of consumers had complained about receiving mysterious credit card charges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s never a good idea to give your credit card number out for anything other than a purchase from a business you trust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-20003489-261.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0\">Visa targets online marketing &#8216;scam&#8217;<\/a> [CNet]<br \/>\n<em>(Thanks, tz!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to stop a scam in which third parties make unauthorized charges to credit cards thinking they were signing up for a loyalty rewards program, Visa is putting up a roadblock meant to keep information safer, CNet reports: Retailers will no longer be able to allow third parties to charge a customer&#8217;s card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32EF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}