Verified By Visa
I’m all for good Internet security, but this system on my Visa card is totally useless.
The reason is that I can never remember the password and as it has to be entered,partly in upper and partly in lower-case, even if I do, it is a nightmare to type in with my gammy left hand. So inevitably, I end up having to create a new password, which surely defeats the system in the first place.
Thinking laterally, if American Express can get their security right in a much simpler way and in many years of using their card on-line, I’ve never had a problem, then surely Verified By Visa in its current form is a waste of space.
I’ve just started to get spam from someone claiming to be verifbyvisa.com. Because of my problems in using the system, I was quite worried, but on checking, there was no problem.
The Anonymous Widower 
Ihate Verify by Visa too, and I always forget the password, and it is a pain. Whenever I can I use paypal, when I was hacked into several years ago they got money from credit card, tried from bank account, and couldnt get at paypal at all, and paypal were really helpful too!
Comment by Liz P | September 6, 2010 |
I also have a John Lewis Partnership card because I shop there and in Waitrose a lot. I find that if I put a strange Internet transaction on the card, like Italian Trains, I often get phoned up.
Incidentally, the UK train industry could learn a lot from how Italian Trains run their ticketing. You print on-line tickets, like airline boarding cards and the inspector reads them on the train. No fiddling with machines on platforms at all. Where the Italians have machines, they have every language you could want and they always work well.
Comment by AnonW | September 6, 2010 |
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