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Get Profitable Trade Alerts Your Email Sign Up "Don McShane has been called 'Wall Street Legend' for his calls in stock picks..." The McShane Letter Forbes Magazine calls it... "THE $15 Trillion Gold Rush!" For the first time ever, you can now buy products online without having to give your credit card information to anyone—thanks to IFAN Financial Inc's (IFAN) brand-new, patented online payment technology. This just-launched tech company could be the new gatekeeper between 2.6 billion online consumers and millions of web merchants... and make early bird investors rich. The problem: An epidemic of credit card fraud online is threatening e-Commerce and scaring away customers. The solution: A brand-new technology that lets customers use debit cards online without giving their credit card info... and saves online merchants a fortune in fees! Dear Opportunity-Seeking Investor, The way we pay for goods and services is about to change... big time. The world will soon use cash and credit cards less and less. In their place will be apps run on our smart phones. Reason: Credit card fraud costs BILLIONS... and mobile payment systems are safer, more secure and easier to use. A recent cover story in Forbes Magazine calls it, "The $15 Trillion Gold Rush." "Money is going mobile, and the race is on to control the flow of bits and cash across a billion smartphones and at millions of online and physical locations," Forbes said. "Research firm Gartner estimates that mobile payments will top $720 billion a year by 2017, up from $235 billion last year. The upside remains enormous: Humans made $15 trillion worth of retail transactions in 2013." " $10,000 Invested at Around 50 Cents Could Potentially Explode to $200,000 If an Apple, Amazon or Google Buyout Pushes the Stock to $10 per Share! " And take a look at what's happening with mobile payment stocks... NXP Semiconductors (NXPI).... up 445%! Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) ... up 891%. Mitek Systems (MITK)...up 5,283%. Fiserv (FISV)... up 6,990%!. Ironically enough, this trillion-dollar revolution is leaving the old credit card companies in the dust. On my proprietary McShane Opportunity Investment Index, this company rates a STRONG BUY. With a Risk rating of only 71%, a Profit Rating of 92% and an Urgency Rating of 96%, this is one of the best opportunities I've seen in quite a while. A slew of small tech companies you've probably never heard of before are grabbing up all the low-hanging fruit, companies such as Square, Level Up, Braintree, Venmo, Single Point, Clinkle and Kopo Kopo. Mobile payment pioneer Square launched in 2009 and is now valued at $5 billion— with annual payments processed through its system of $30 billion. Low hanging fruit are nice... but the company I tell you about in this special investment bulletin, IFAN, is going after the entire tree! My name is Don McShane. I'm an investment analyst and stock picker who specializes in undiscovered tech stocks. Since I launched The McShane Letter in 1970— more than 700 issues ago—my featured "front page" stock recommendations have a perfect record of 48 winners and zero losers. Of those stock recommendations, 47 have more than doubled in value (over 100% gains), and many by more than 10 times (1,000%). Only one failed to appreciate 100% when it rose "only" 35%. Now I've discovered another potential 10-bagger: IFAN. Reason: The company has developed a brand-new, patented technology that is going to revolutionize the entire mobile and online payment universe. While past performance is no guarantee of future results and you should never speculate with money you can't afford to lose, I believe this could be my biggest winner yet. If I'm right and the mobile payment industry adopts online bank debit cards in a big way, this undiscovered tech company could go berserk— the way Paypal did when it grew from 12,000 accounts to 9 million in just 18 months. That's why I'm telling anyone who will listen that they should consider IFAN right away. I’m providing this pick for you so that you will see the type of unique opportunities I uncover at The McShane Letter. I hope you will see the logic as countless others have the subscribe to receive more from me. It's not very often that I get to say this... but the company I tell you about in this special investment bulletin is truly a game-changer for the economy. It's pioneering an entirely new way of paying for products online... And it's not anything esoteric like Bitcoin or e-gold. Instead, it is using a very old technology... the bank debit card... and simply making it work online. No more credit card numbers, expiration dates and CVV numbers. That's all GONE. The name of the company is IFAN Financial Inc (IFAN). What IFAN does is allow your smartphone or PC to pay for things with the equivalent of cash. IFAN eliminates entirely the need for using credit card numbers... making it impossible for thieves and fraudsters to steal your information. I can't remember the last time I encountered an investment opportunity with so much upside potential and such limited down side risk. IFAN could single-handedly save the $1.2 trillion e-Commerce industry... and make early investors a fortune virtually overnight. It has the potential for becoming the next Paypal. And just as Paypal was bought within months of its IPO, I believe this company could very well be bought out as well. In The Blink of An Eye... The Problem of Online Credit Card Fraud is Now Eliminated! Why is IFAN so revolutionary? Well, up until now the only practical way to buy something online is with a credit card. Sure, there are a few alternatives available — e-checks, pre-paid credit cards, Western Union and so on—but for most people, most of the time, credit cards are the only practical option. But credit cards have a huge, indeed fatal drawback. When buying anything online, you have no choice but to give all your credit Safest Payment System Ever card info to someone— the credit card numbers, expiration date and CVV Destined to Dominate the Market code. Technology protects consumers and The problem is, that "someone" is vulnerable. Despite the $5.6 billion that merchants merchants spend annually on various security methods, credit card Fraud and identity thief becomes virtually information can often be accessed by identity thieves and hackers. impossible! And because credit card info is so insecure, and so often stolen, the use of Merchants make more money using IFAN as credit cards online is very, very expensive. the system saves them more than 2% per consumer transaction Credit card companies like Visa, MasterCard and American Express charge e- commerce businesses loan-shark-like rates to process their online transactions Merchants using IFAN pay no chargebacks —as much as 5%, 8%, even 10% of every transaction. Travel industry businesses often have to pay as much as 8% to 10% in credit card fees. The Birth of Mobile and Online Debit Payments "It is just the start of a revolution that over the next few years will see millions of us ditch But debit cards are another thing entirely—and that's why IFAN conventional debit cards, credit cards, loyalty potentially could be a once-in-alifetime investment opportunity for cards... in favor of using our mobile phones for investors who act quickly. almost every aspect of our finances." You see, with a bank debit card and your secret PIN number, you —The Guardian, April 25, 2014 don't actually provide ANY credit card information. None. Zero. theguardian Banks consider the combination of a physical debit card and a PIN CODE to be the equivalent of... CASH. They even have a special name for it: a "card present transaction." When you swipe your debit card at a grocery store, and key in your secret PIN number, it's a "card present transaction"... Accepted Everywhere Just Like Cash What to do next for: IFAN The store accepts debit cards just like it does cash... and none of your private information, such as the numbers on the debit card, Ticker Symbol............................. IFAN are recorded by the merchant. Current Price ...............................$.50 5 Month Target...........................$4.50 Instead, the encrypted information stored on the debit card's Long Term Target.....................$19.00 Action to Take.........Buy Immediately magnetic strip or digital chip is transmitted directly to the bank. Recommendation: When combined with the PIN number, it allows the bank to release the funds directly to the merchant... but the merchant never even sees, much less stores, your credit card information. STRONG BUY! "Mobile will redefine how commerce Credit Cards STOLEN! is done. Steve Jobs redefined the retail experience. I think commerce and mobile will do an even more transformational job in an exponential way. The opportunity for startups to redefine the power of mobile is incredible... power of mobile is incredible... Outside of credit cards and charge cards, there's $25 trillion out there. That's a tremendous opportunity." —American Express CEO Ken Chenault, CNN Money, May 21, 2014 It's super-secure—far more secure than credit card information. 40 Million Customers Well, IFAN has figured out a way to use this same system... only online Credit Cards STOLEN! and with smartphones. It has an exclusive, patented technology that allows customers and vendors to use bank debit cards online and with their smartphones—and WITHOUT having to disclose the numbers on the cards.
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