Amazon accepts Visa cards

Amazon will accept Visa credit cards across all its sites after the two businesses reached a global agreement. The online retail giant had last year threatened to stop the use of Visa credit cards in the UK due to the fees Visa charged to process payments increased to 1.5% from 0.3% after the UK left the EU.

Criminals are deploying “psychological tactics” amid a rise in scams, says Barclays bank. Tricks include creating illusions of product scarcity or pretending to be an authority to “socially engineer” victims, the bank’s chief behavioural scientist Dr Pete Brooks warned. He said scammers used dating apps to target people to establish “emotional connections”.