> At 07:45 2002-05-15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >It sounds to me like they generate a one use credit card type > >number for you to use online that maps to a bank account, > >but I'm not positive. > > That's what it looks like. My first reaction: How long will it > take before they run out of available unique numbers? > > Adam > http://CarCowboy.com/
The number and the amount associated with it would have to have a life span. If not used in 48 hours (pick a number any number), it would be cancelled and later on mapped to a different amount. The question that then pops into my head is what if (big what if) you paid $10 for a cc number and didn't use it right away... then somehow you lucked upon the day a few weeks later when the number was valid again for someone else. This time it is mapped to $1,000,000. You could steal a lot of money right? I think not. Not in a my version of the system. Since a credit card number gets verified with certain characteristics of your billing address, surely the number will be associated with a different address each time it is used. I can see the system being pretty foolproof if your own address, was associated with it. Come to think of it, it would have to. Not all places will send things to anything but the billing address. Now, this is how *I* would make the system work. How their's works... email 'em. Let the list know. BRYAN --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
