Monday, March 24, 2003

Smartcards 'pushing credit card crime to Australia'

Erwin Boogert pointed me to this article by ZDNet News. It reports that fraud moves towards countries with a lot fo magstripes. Amongst which Australia.



Visa Australia, which is seeking to integrate its contact-less chip credit cards with smart card-based state public transport mass ticketing facilities, said Australia was in danger of becoming a main point of card fraud in the Asia Pacific region.