PSA: Check your banking app for a potentially important setting
This too relates to automatically recurring card payments, and it turned out not to work in the way we might expect it to … The gradual expansion of fintech – financial technology – has been one of the most useful tech developments in recent years. A great many years ago, before banking apps, I had an Amex card cloned while I was in Hong Kong. Someone made a jewellery purchase amounting to several thousand dollars, and because the fraudster was smart enough not to risk maxing out the card, the first I knew of it was when I received my monthly statement more than a week later.
- ▪This too relates to automatically recurring card payments, and it turned out not to work in the way we might expect it to … The gradual expansion of fintech – financial technology – has been one of the most useful tech developments in recen
- ▪A great many years ago, before banking apps, I had an Amex card cloned while I was in Hong Kong.
- ▪Someone made a jewellery purchase amounting to several thousand dollars, and because the fraudster was smart enough not to risk maxing out the card, the first I knew of it was when I received my monthly statement more than a week later.
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