Technically no. Federal legislation protects you in the case of credit card
fraud but not in the case of debit card fraud; however, in order to avoid
federal legislation, at least MasterCard and Visa adopted to same policy with
respect to both their credit and debit cards. Information is available at their
web sites.
WKato@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 9/19/00 8:55:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ntaylor@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > Last month my Master Charge had several billings, all for about US$100
> > each, all for men's clothing, all ordered from stores in England, France,
> > or Germany, all to be shipped to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and none of them
> > were placed by me nor anyone in my family. A single letter and one phone
> > call and _all_ fraudulent charges were removed from my account!
>
> Thank you for the note re: international purchases and fraud protection. I
> always wondered 'bout that. Does anyone know if the same applies if you use
> an ATM as a VISA card, does the same protection apply?
>
> Thanks
> Warren
> -not planning any international purchases soon.
>
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