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7.20 Merchandise Transactions
7.18.2.3 Disposition of Suspicious Captured Cards
The following Rules replace Chapter 7, “Acquiring,” Rule 7.18.2.3 in part 1
of this rulebook:
A magnetic stripe of a non-European Card must be destroyed by cutting in half
through the magnetic stripe and the Card should be disposed of. However, if it
is obvious that the captured Card is fraudulent (i.e. white plastic), the Acquirer
must return the Card without cutting it in half to MasterCard Europe, Fraud and
Security Department.
7.20 Merchandise Transactions
7.20.1 Approved Merchandise Categories
7.23 ATM Access Fees
In addition to the Approved Merchandise Categories listed in Chapter 7,
“Acquiring,” Rule 7.20.1 of this rulebook, the following applies:
Merchandise Category Explanation
Mobile Phone Top Up A specified amount of prepaid wireless telephone time,
to be credited to the mobile SIM card associated with
the subscriber’s prepaid telephone account.
Bill Payment Payment via the ATM of utility, telephone or other bills.
The Transaction may be identified with MCC 4900 or
MCC 6050.
7.23.1 Domestic Transactions
The following Rules replace Chapter 7, “Acquiring,” Rule 7.23.1, paragraph
1 in part 1 of this rulebook:
Upon complying with the ATM Access Fee notification requirements of the
Rules, Acquirers in the United Kingdom may assess an ATM Access Fee on
a Transaction initiated with a Card that was issued in the United Kingdom
so long as the Acquirer applies the ATM Access Fee in a consistent and
nondiscriminatory fashion.
Acquirers in the United Kingdom must not assess an ATM Access Fee on
non-financial (anything other than a cash withdrawal) Transactions.
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