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@[]##THE HANGOVER ASPIRINS CAN'T CURE#£2.5 MILLION CREDIT CARD FRAUD#A SMARTER CARD FOR THE FUTURE
In the ten leading industrial nations in the world, there are now nearly one billion plastic cards in circulation#The world champion diner on plastic is Fred E. Magel. He has used his cards to eat out 46,000 times in 60 countries. His job, unsurprisingly, is assessing restaurants#The largest collection of plastic in the world belongs to Walter Cavanagh from California, with 1,384 cards giving a total credit value of $1.6 million. He does not keep them all in the one wallet#In 1950 the annual fee for Diner's Club was $5. Today it is $80#On average, each credit card fraud costs the company $4,500 (£3,000); with gold cards it can run to over $15,000 (£10,000)#Debit cards, which take money directly from the customer's account at the time of the transaction, have become big business in Britain In 1993 the two biggest companies, Delta and Switch, handled over 700 million transactions worth £18 billion ($27 billion)#Despite the claims of the card companies that such crimes are almost impossible, many users have been the victims of 'phantom withdrawals' of cash from their accounts by the use of stolen or copied cards
