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loose wire[loose wire] I feel I need to add a footnote to my outburst about the difficulties of buying Skype credits in far-flung countries which may not have great reputations for handling fraud but which do maintain impressively high international call charges. One reader in the Philippines, John Richards, told me he’d had success using Moneybookers by transferring money there and using that to buy Skype credit while another, Vietnamese resident Duc Le, said he had used the same service via credit card with no success at all:

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