| From: | Sommers sommers@*****.edu |
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| Subject: | Cash, Credit and Crime |
| Date: | Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:32:36 -0400 |
>At 18.11 07-01-99 +0200, you wrote:
> >Such a system is already established in Germany. You can
> >draw money from your bank account and put it on a plastic
> >card. Actually it is my EC-Card but you can get anonymous
>
> They use the same kind of thing at my college, but only the laundry
>machines accept the card. Based off the promo paper that was with the
>initial card, they are used in other schools for just about everything.
> Prepaid calling cards are pretty much the same idea.
We have the same kind of thing at our school too. It used to be available
just for use on campus, but the local businesses complained about that so
much that a lot of them have the readers in their store now.
What I'd like to know about is the prepaid cell phones. I've seen a few
adds for them. It seems like you go into the store, drop some cash, and
walk out with a cell phone that has a prepaid limit on them. The big
selling point I read was that it didn't require a credit check. If that's
so, then it seems like a perfectly untraceable phone, the same as a pay
phone, except that you can carry it with you.
I could see all sorts of uses for that in SR....
Sommers
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