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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: Debit insurance
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:59:53 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:
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- >> [bounced = rubber checks - insufficient funds in the back account to cover
- >> the draft...] This could be the same idea for an ATM, aka debit, card.
- >
- >Might we be talking here about what is some times called a line of
- >credit, whereby a person can overdraw their account up to a preset
- >amount, without recrimmination, and only a small interest charge?
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- It sure sounds like it. I'm not a banker though, and don't have a tame
- one on tap to ask. Does anyone else have any clue?
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