News and notes from around the interweb:
- A good overview of Southeast Asia scams you’ll likely run into as a tourist. A good companion to my Common Tourist Scams and How to Avoid Them
- The taxi industry outspends Uber and Lyft on lobbying 3500:1
- Hipster scarf saves an American tourist’s life in Germany
- The New York Times on how money laundering and fraud are causing the screws to tighten on prepaid financial products.
- Uber launching business accounts and partnering with travel and expense company Concur. The article notes that Uber’s cut of each fare is 20%. (HT: S.)
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I have a good topic for you to pontificate on and ask readers for any experiences that they have had. That is personal liability for credit card fraud on small business cards that they have taken out for miles. Such cards do not have zero liability. The individuals (business owners/sole proprietors/partners/llc member/corp officers). Many readers are applying for small business cards saying that they have small business that are sole proprietorships just to get these cards. What experience do they have with identify thief and any personal liability that arose as a result of their using such small business cards rather than personal credit cards. This is a real concern. And small business cards are encouraged in the miles awards game.
I thought the Burberry knockoffs were the chav scarf so I guess I’m behind the times as per usual…
Donating money to politicians ≠ lobbying. And the spend for cabs goes back to 1990 whereas the Uber and Lyft contributions are very recent, giving cabs a 20 year head start. And I am all for Uber/Lyft/etc, but that article is basically junk.