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Mastercard, Visa begin to block payments to VPN providers

article published on 4 July, 2013

Credit card processors Mastercard and Visa have begun banning VPN providers, taking a similar stance as they do with file-sharing services. In one such example, Swedish payment service provider Payson sent an email to all customers stating they cannot accept Mastercard or Visa payments any more due to a recent policy change by the companies. "Payson has restrictions against anonymization ... [ read the full article ]

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megadunderhead
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_ 		4. July 2013 @ 01:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and you can avoid this by just creating a shawdow company and give it a nice name like fluffy bunny .com and show a video of a bunny and say help save the bunnys and have them pay for services through a phony site that gives them access to the other site then you can no longer track payments
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Menion
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_ 		4. July 2013 @ 01:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I believe this is where bitcoin comes usefull.
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nonoitall
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_ 		4. July 2013 @ 02:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Menion:
 I believe this is where bitcoin comes usefull.
My thought exactly.
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Jemborg
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_ 		5. July 2013 @ 00:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It just goes to show that VPNs actually work.

What business is it of Visa's what I pay for?

Originally posted by megadunderhead:
 and you can avoid this by just creating a shawdow company and give it a nice name like fluffy bunny .com and show a video of a bunny and say help save the bunnys and have them pay for services through a phony site that gives them access to the other site then you can no longer track payments
At last you say something that makes sense!
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Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

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Mez
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_ 		5. July 2013 @ 19:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Obama got his first real money from the entertainment sector. Opra can smell a winner. His policy is reward friends and punish enemies.
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pmshah
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_ 		5. July 2013 @ 21:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What a stupid move ! Does anyone realize that VPN allows access to political and social sites that are frowned upon or restricted by government of the day ?

This is not going to prevent VPN services from functioning. One will have to find a way of transferring the funds. Recently I had a relative bring me some hardware from USA. All I had to do was remit funds via PayPal to his email account. My bank does have the facility of very securely transferring funds to any bank account in any bank in the world via netbanking. So now is it going to be a toss up between the banks and credit card companies ?
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Mez
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_ 		6. July 2013 @ 14:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am sure the move was intended to be just that, restrictive. I guess you need to watch your ass or maybe you will get taken out by a drone cause you have been naughty!
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