Brussels, 25/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has just adopted an action plan 2004-07 for fighting against fraudulent payments and strengthening consumer confidence in credit cards and bank transfers. This kind of fraud, is committed, for example, by stealing the identity of the credit card owner or false use of cards in cash dispensers and according to Commissioner Frits Bolkestein in a press release, "is exceeding one billion euros annually".
The plan is essentially based...