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http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,82073,00.html?SKC=home82073 E-merchants Turn Fraud-busters Web retailers are teaming up to fight online credit card fraud and take back the e-neighborhood. By Alan R. Earls JUNE 16, 2003 Nobody likes being ripped off. But for online retailers, the pain of being ripped off by unethical consumers, identity thieves and bogus-card gangs has been magnified by what they consider to be the not-my-problem attitude of credit card issuers and card associations like Visa and MasterCard. Tom Mahoney, a network administrator at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., recalls vividly the shock he and his wife felt shortly after they launched their own mom-and-pop e-business in 1997 and discovered not only the threat of fraud but also the double whammy from the credit card companies. ... snip ... -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
