Originally Posted by
Savage25
Kingfisher Airlines also now has this on their website:
"Please note, currently we only accept Credit Cards issued in India."
Kingfisher got taken for INR 17 crore (that is, INR 170 million / nearly 4 million USD) because of transactions using stolen cards.
http://www.ibnlive.com/printpage.php...3§ion_id=7
Police sources say credit card details procured from restaurants, petrol pumps and shopping mall employees were used to book tickets online.
The police suspect an organised syndicate is responsible for the fraud that may in fact be a nationwide one.
If they're getting scammed using stolen local cards, banning transactions using international cards probably wouldn't help them very much.