Meetings & Conventions: Short Cuts November 2000 November 2000 Short Cuts:TECH NEWSSAFER CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS. American Express now offers disposable credit card numbers for its customers to use when shopping online. The free service, called Private Payments, was scheduled to launch last month. For safety’s sake, cardholders can obtain a random, one-time-use account number generated at the American Express Web site (www.americanexpress.com) to use for each online transaction. S.B. Back to Current Issue index | Back to Short Cuts indexM&C Home PageCurrent Issue | Events Calendar | Newsline | Incentive News | Meetings Market ReportEditorial Libraries | CVB Links | Reader Survey | Hot Dates | Contact M&C