Originally Posted by
craigthemif
Can UK or European residents order these? I would have thought that know-your-customer and money laundering regulations might make it harder to just hand out Mastercards to people, prepaid or not...
Originally Posted by
chrism20
It lets me select and go through to the final order page whilst selecting UK when logging in.
You normally have to register the card before first use so they meet the KYC checks and are extremely common in the U.K. on sale in places such as Tesco etc. Some high street banks also issue them. I’ve got a Santander one somewhere in the house and also had an EE/Orange one at some point in the past.
Some hotels however do have their PDQs set up to reject them and if the retailer isn’t using an “online” PDQ it will also more than likely be rejected.
Originally Posted by
craigthemif
PDQ?
But that's sort of my point. Presumably this card is issued by a US bank, which may not actually allow foreigners to register it in the same way that a UK resident could go to Tesco and buy a prepaid card from a UK bank/company or the old 3V (RIP
).
No, their ain't any real KYC process and there is no need for this. You register once without any ID check, just for the sake that you can get a card replaced if it gets lost. The face value of this card is paid for by IHG or its service provider and it is gifted to you the same way you get an Amazo or other voucher. Therei s no money floating around but 1000 (or less) USD as a predetermined value to be spend at IHG hotels. And they are available at several places (I bought them with EU, UK and US adresses). By the way: This is not a new thing. About 10 years ago IHG had an Amex prepaid card on offer.
No need for some posters to make it more complicated as it is.