IS IT SAFE?: Shopping online can be risky - card fraud on the web is a growth business. But the real loser is the e-tailer, who has to make good any loss. Will smart and semi-smart cards curb the fraudsters? Andrew Saunders checks out some of the solution

by ANDREW SAUNDERS..TX.-When the e-mail from a US music e-tailer arrived in Nicola Dodd'sin-box earlier this year, its contents were far more compelling than theusual 'buy one, get one free' puffery. Instead, it was the kind ofmessage that anyone

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