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Default 21-05-2006, 17:05

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Originally Posted by MATHA531
Unfortunately it is very common among mobile phone carriers to only allow recharging remotely with a credit card issued in that country and the way they do this is, as noted, by requiring a postal code from that country.
The same feature is in Poland - all the ops require a Polish billing address for the card (and top-up pages are in Polish only - an extra "protection" )
The funniest thing that they allow international cards issued in Poland not only with logos of Visa, MC, DC and Amex but also JCB - but there are no Polish JCB cards and I doubt if they ever appear lol:

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Originally Posted by MATHA531
I just don't understand it and never have.......the whole purpose of international credit cards such as visa and mastercard is to make national borders invisible and it really can't be a big fraud problem...I mean what are we talking about 5 or 10 euro?
Hmm, I guess that there may be some issue with extra charges for international transactions and/or possibly longer waiting time for authorisation of the transaction :unsure: :
   
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