On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Jerrold Leichter wrote: > The banks, operating through the clearing agents, could if they wished > impose a requirement on the way names appear in billing statements, > regardless of how the names appear on contracts. Alternatively, > they could at least require that an end-user-familiar name be made > available in whatever database records all merchants, which the banks > obviously have access to.
A bank once told me that it was impossible for them to convert from an unintelligible name on a credit card statement into any other kind of name whatsoever (and certainly not into an end-user-familiar name), and impossible for them to show me a copy of any document whatsoever that might be related to the charge; however, they said that if I repudiated the charge, then they could get a copy of the voucher or other documents. So I repudiated the charge, but the bank was still unable or unwilling to show me the promised copies of relevant documents. The merchant eventually contacted me about the repudiated charge. --apb (Alan Barrett) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]