Smart Money is Not Really a Smart Card

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Yesterday, I told you about making your cellphone you wallet, right? And doing this need you to have your own SMART Money.

And did you know that today I was embarrassed by the SMART Money?

Actually, the real cause of this embarrassment is my expectation that SMART Money can be used as credit card just because it has the MasterCard Electron logo printed on it. However, when I use it into my AMAZON account, I realized that this couldn’t be used as credit card.

Amazon emailed me this:

Regarding Order xxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxx from Amazon.com

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Greetings from Amazon.com,

Your credit card payment for the above transaction could not be completed.
An issuing bank will often decline an attempt to charge a credit card if
the name, expiration date, or ZIP Code you entered at Amazon.com does not
exactly match the bank’s information.

Valid credit card information must be received within 3 days, otherwise
your order will be void.

Once you have confirmed your account information with your issuing bank,
please follow the link below to resubmit your payment.

We recommend you select an option to create a new payment method when
prompted and enter the complete information for the payment method you
wish to use.

http://www.amazon.com//gp/css/summary/edit.html/?orderID=xxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxx

To view your transaction status online, please visit:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/css/history/view.html

We hope that you are able to resolve this issue promptly.

Please note: This e-mail was sent from a notification-only address that
cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com.

Amazon.com Customer Service

This experience taught me that not all cards bearing the logo of VISA, MasterCard or any similar credit cards can be used for your online credit transaction.

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Posted by User ImageSELaplana, 18 November 2007 at Finance, Internet (No. of Views: 7486)

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3 Responses to “Smart Money is Not Really a Smart Card”

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    no imageReyn (Check me out!) Says:

    It was probably for your protection too. My bank issued me two cards.. one that’s for online transaction use and one that can not be used online in anyway.

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    no imagemarhgil (Check me out!) Says:

    Mastercard and Mastercard Electronic are two different beasts :) You can’t use a Mastercard Electronic on Mastercard enabled store. Same as Visa and Visa Electron.

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    no imagecheryl (Check me out!) Says:

    As u can see the card was marked mastercard electronic not a mastercard. that only shows it has a specific store where you can purchase using it.

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