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Now, even my friends are phishing me

I received an email last week that totally blindsided me. It read: “Thank you for your reservation with SouthWest Airlines. Below are details of your flights: Wednesday, August 27th 2008Nonstop, BUF-MDW 398 Depart Buffalo (BUF) at 10:25 AMArrive in Chicago (MDW) at 11:05 AM Monday, September 8th 2008Nonstop, MDW-BUF 1753Depart Chicago (MDW) at 4:30 PMArrive…

Now, even my friends are phishing me

I received an email last week that totally blindsided me. It read: “Thank you for your reservation with SouthWest Airlines. Below are details of your flights: Wednesday, August 27th 2008Nonstop, BUF-MDW 398 Depart Buffalo (BUF) at 10:25 AMArrive in Chicago (MDW) at 11:05 AM Monday, September 8th 2008Nonstop, MDW-BUF 1753Depart Chicago (MDW) at 4:30 PMArrive…

Now, even my friends are phishing me

I received an email last week that totally blindsided me. It read: “Thank you for your reservation with SouthWest Airlines. Below are details of your flights: Wednesday, August 27th 2008Nonstop, BUF-MDW 398 Depart Buffalo (BUF) at 10:25 AMArrive in Chicago (MDW) at 11:05 AM Monday, September 8th 2008Nonstop, MDW-BUF 1753Depart Chicago (MDW) at 4:30 PMArrive…

Amazon land a blow against PayPal and co

As I've been talking about the internet this week, it's noteworthy that Amazon have just launched two new simple payments services. Checkout by Amazon allows you to take all the payments functionality that Amazon offer –auto calculation of payment, shipping and taxes, promotion codes, customer feedback reviews – and place these on your own website. Amazon Simple Pay…

Amazon land a blow against PayPal and co

As I've been talking about the internet this week, it's noteworthy that Amazon have just launched two new simple payments services. Checkout by Amazon allows you to take all the payments functionality that Amazon offer –auto calculation of payment, shipping and taxes, promotion codes, customer feedback reviews – and place these on your own website. Amazon Simple Pay…

Amazon land a blow against PayPal and co

As I've been talking about the internet this week, it's noteworthy that Amazon have just launched two new simple payments services. Checkout by Amazon allows you to take all the payments functionality that Amazon offer –auto calculation of payment, shipping and taxes, promotion codes, customer feedback reviews – and place these on your own website. Amazon Simple Pay…

Amazon land a blow against PayPal and co

As I've been talking about the internet this week, it's noteworthy that Amazon have just launched two new simple payments services. Checkout by Amazon allows you to take all the payments functionality that Amazon offer –auto calculation of payment, shipping and taxes, promotion codes, customer feedback reviews – and place these on your own website. Amazon Simple Pay…

Amazon land a blow against PayPal and co

As I've been talking about the internet this week, it's noteworthy that Amazon have just launched two new simple payments services. Checkout by Amazon allows you to take all the payments functionality that Amazon offer –auto calculation of payment, shipping and taxes, promotion codes, customer feedback reviews – and place these on your own website. Amazon Simple Pay…

The Payment Services Directive will cost banks €6 billion

This is according to a survey performed by PSE Consulting and published on Euractiv yesterday. The Payment Services Directive (PSD) is the bit of integrating Europe’s low value payments systems that provides the legal support for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).  The only thing is that it goes a lot further in its wordings,…

The Payment Services Directive will cost banks €6 billion

This is according to a survey performed by PSE Consulting and published on Euractiv yesterday. The Payment Services Directive (PSD) is the bit of integrating Europe’s low value payments systems that provides the legal support for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).  The only thing is that it goes a lot further in its wordings,…

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