Mission trip gets closer

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Well, today I picked up some Spanish-language Bibles, thanks to a gracious in-kind donation by a local Christian printer-publisher. We’ll give them to our host church or others we meet in Costa Rica. I have so many that I may have to split them up with my teammates in order to get all of them packed.

I also checked with my bank today to make sure I can use my ATM card in Costa Rica. I normally don’t have much cause to use an ATM card on trips — we bring cash and change it in for the local currency at someplace recommended by our in-country hosts. But last year, during our odyssey of going to and from the airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for 32 hours, I tried to use my card at the airport and it didn’t work. That’s because many credit card issuers assume that foreign charges are some form of fraud or identity theft — unless you notify them in advance that you will be traveling and using your card abroad.

It won’t be long now. I have a million little things like this to worry about between now and then, and I hope I can get them all taken care of.

  • Roger

    Fraud crimes will continue to grow until the government and banks exploit KEY and PIN system described on website http://www.xwave.co.uk which will make signature and PIN systems reliable to deter fraudsters from getting tempted to misuse our stolen personal and card details.

    Key and PIN system will deter virtually all types of fraud crimes including those Chip and PIN, data protection and biometric ID card systems will fail to deter.

    KEY and PIN system could be treated like international ID card since it will personalise signature and PIN to the right individual in any country in the world.

    We hope that the banks and government will exploit proposed system before it is too late to stop a fraud boom.

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    To deter fraud crimes all we have to do is to make signature and PIN systems reliable and foolproof as proposed on website http://www.xwave.co.uk

    Proposed KEY and PIN system will eliminate the need for us to protect our personal and card details since fraudsters will not get tempted to misuse them.

    Key and PIN system will deter virtually all types of fraud crimes including those Chip and PIN, data protection and biometric ID card systems will fail to deter.

    KEY and PIN system could be treated like international ID card since it will personalise signature and PIN to the right individual in any country in the world.

    We hope that the banks and government will exploit proposed system before it is too late to stop a fraud boom.