Credit Card Theft redux

"Rudeney" <rudeney@mickeypics.com> wrote in message
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> Patty Winter wrote:
>>
>> I don't know which other card issuers offer this, but CitiCards has
>> virtual account numbers you can use for phone and Internet charges.
>> If any other merchant tries to use the same VAN, the charge won't
>> go through. (At least, that's what the policies say; I haven't
>> tried it.) And even the designated merchant can't use it for more
>> than a month or so. (That policy I have verified. I've had newsletter
>> publishers try to charge me for another year's subscription, and the
>> charge hasn't gone through.)
>
> Amex does this, too.
>
> --
>
> - RODNEY
>
Amex brought back their virtual account numbers program? I used the Amex
virtual account numbers until they discontinued them a year or 2 back.- Bill

"Dillon Pyron" <invaliddmpyron@austin.> wrote in message
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>
> Citibank just started it up for their Visa card holders. Or at least,
> this is the first I've heard of it. Of course, it's really a Visa
> progrm.

I began using the Citi Mastercard VAN some months (a year?) ago. You can
use their website to generate VANs or install their small software program
that automatically fills in your info on purchase webpages. BTW, the
software program does not work with Windows Vista.- Bill

[Default] Thus spake Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com>:

>
>In article <gmkn045dlg759ukpoedmevtpp2rau887km@>,
>Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@austin.> wrote:
>>
>>Citibank just started it up for their Visa card holders. Or at least,
>>this is the first I've heard of it. Of course, it's really a Visa
>>progrm.
>
>CitiCards didn't just start VANs; they've had them for many years.
>
>And are you sure that it's run by Visa? None of my other Visa issuers
>offer it. BofA offers a similar service, but from the description,
>it doesn't work quite the same way. And my U.S. Bank account makes
>no mention of such a feature. If it were run by Visa, I'd expect
>it to be available under the same name with the same features from
>all Visa issuers.
>
>
>Patty

I'm probably wrong, then. I just noticed it in my latest bill. But,
as I just said elsewhere, I don't usually read that .