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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Cash, Credit and Crime
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:47:10 +0200
According to Ulrich Haupt, at 18:11 on 1 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> Such a system is already established in Germany. You can
> draw money from your bank account and put it on a plastic
> card.

Same here in the Netherlands. I have two of them, from different banks,
and both built into the normal bank card by means of a chip, but I don't
remember the codes to "recharge" either one of them :)

> Actually it is my EC-Card but you can get anonymous
> ones with no connection to a bank account. I think there
> shall be some 'cash points' somwwhere where you can pay
> money into the machine and it put's the amount onto you
> card.

Here it works in the same way, I believe, and those issued by the post
office (which is also a bank) can be recharged in any phone booth.

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