[wplug] temporary credit cards

[Brian Medley]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:35:28PM -0500, Brian Sammon wrote:

> A few months ago, someone mentioned a creditcard provider that allowed you to 
> generate temporary creditcard numbers for online shopping.  I've been doing 
> some research, and some of these systems require you to download a Windoze 
> program to generate the new numbers.  The others don't tell you how it works 
> until after you sign up for the card.
> It looks like American Express's "Private Payments" program would allow you to 
> generate the numbers through the website, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Is anyone here familiar with such programs that you can use without having 
> Windoze installed?

I've used private payments w/ Mozilla on Linux and OS X.  I also wrote a
perl program to get a new number, but I haven't used it in a while, so I
don't know if it still works.  MBNA's LinuxFund website for getting
numbers was just redone, so I've only used it under OS X.  

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