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Merchant 911 Founder Corroborates On CC Fraud Article --- Saturday, September 29, 2001
Released on 9-27-01 a series of articles dealing with the ever growing Credit Card fraud that affects us all. The article lists steps a merchant can take to help prevent credit card fraud. Also some mention of new software in development to help prevent fraud.
GOOD JOB Tom!!!!!!
Articles can be viewed here:
http://searchhound.com/howl/index.php?article=286
http://searchhound.com/howl/index.php?article=290
http://searchhound.com/howl/index.php?article=319 (This one by Tom, the founder of 911)
http://searchhound.com/howl/index.php?article=341 (This one by Tom, the founder of 911)
Merchant 911 Home Page Selected for Textbook --- Friday, September 21, 2001
The Merchant 911 home page has been selected by Pearson Education, Inc., a division of Addison-Wesley publishing, to appear as a screen shot in their forthcoming text tentatively titled E-Commerce: Business, Technology, & Society by Lauden/Traver. This is a hardbound textbook, approximately 640 pages long, to be published in November.
The publisher also plans to have an electronic form of the textbook available.
Merchant 911 Founder Interviewed for Retail Development Magazine --- Friday, September 21, 2001
The word of Merchant 911's existance spreads almost daily.
The founder of Merchant 911 was interviewed yesterday by the editor of Shopping Today, a publication of the International Council of Shopping Centers. The amount of information about 911 to be published is not clear, but we will apparently be mentioned with a link to the site.
We are gearing up for yet another onslaught of new members to help us fight back!
Merchant 911 Featured in Local Business Magazine --- Friday, September 21, 2001
Merchant 911 was recently featured in a cover story by the Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster, PA. The article, written by Susan Lindt, appeared in the newspaper's Business Monday magazine. It reviewed the fraud risks to merchants, and the Card Companies' unique way of financial gain for not properly verifying the validity of a card number.
The article provided facts and figures showing that the Credit Card system, (card companies, issuing banks, and payment processors) are raking in over $1.5 million every DAY in charge back fees alone! And this, of course is AFTER they charge Merchants a significantly higher fee because of the 'added risk.'
Merchant 911 was cited as one of several grass roots organizations that is fighting back.