Today's credit card, debt, payment system reading

I thought I'd try something new I hope you find useful: Today's reading list. It's headlines and other reports on credit, debt and payments systems that I found newsworthy, interesting or odd enough to be worth passing along:

• Study ranks cities whose bad online habits make them most vulnerable to being "digitally duped." Sorry San Antonio, you're No. 1. (Press release, via MarketWatch)
• FTC warns small businesses: That e-mail that says "URGENT: Pending Consumer Complaint"? We know it looks like it's from us, but it's not. (FTC)
• "Hidden History of Banking" details the lives and finances of notable convicts in 19th century New South Wales, Australia. Convicts were forced to lodge their money in the bank and pay for their incarceration, and housed according to their ability to pay. (Exhibition and brochure from Reserve Bank of Australia, via Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
  
• As Visa pushes one form of disposable data, Discover ditches another. (PaymentsSource)
• FTC Testimony to House Subcommittee on Social Security on child identity theft. (FTC)
• Pasco County, Pinellas County, Fla., banks hit by a rash of bank branch ATM skimming. (Bank Info Security)
  
• Lost at bars: Credit cards, laptops with sensitive data, and prototype iPhones. (Mission Local)
  
• Texas Agriculture Department tests stamping gas pumps with QR code decals, so smartphone-armed consumers can rat out shortchanging pumps. (Houston Chronicle)
  
• Credit, debit card perks on the chopping block. (USA Today)
  
• Tampa tax fraud, in which the prize was prepaid debit cards loaded with refunds, was so lucrative drug sellers changed jobs. (Tampa Bay Online) 
• TransUnion finds one out of three Americans don't save for the holiday shopping season. My opinion? Another one out of three lies when they say they do.