Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pay Pal payments
From: Jerald Rosenfeld <jarosenfeld@home.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 06:35:26 -0700

I always split the credit card number into 2 E-Mails.. So far I have 
not had a problem.
Jerry

Martin Howard wrote:
> 
> Joe Codispoti jotted down the following:
> 
> > Paypal essentially is a "middleman" that allows the buyer to pay with a
> > credit card directly to the email address of the seller.
> 
> I would advise anyone NOT to send their credit card information over regular
> email to anyone.  It is not secure, it is not encrypted, and can bounce of a
> large number of different machines (with the ability to be stored or read on
> any one of them) before reaching the intended recipient.
> 
> Secure Internet servers at shopping sites are one thing, but regular email
> is a very different beast altogether.
> 
> M.
> 
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