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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by nmat on Friday March 25, 2016 @12:35AM (#11358503)
In Portugal we have had this service for many years and it works regardless of the bank (https://www.mbnet.pt in portuguese). Most people I know always generate one of these cards for online shopping, it's safer and easier to control.
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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by vmateixeira on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:49AM (#11359388)
That's indeed true! Although you still have the limitation of only being able to generate virtual credit cards of the same type of your "parent/real" credit card. For instance, with a Maestro/Mastercard you cannot generate virtual VISA's.
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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by vmateixeira on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:50AM (#11359392)
I wonder if 'ma' would stand for Manuel Alves... that would've been funny :)
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