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In the Hardy Boys novel Mystery on Vampire Trail (published in 1971), a gang counterfeits an extremely high-end credit card (the in-universe equivalent of today’s Amex Centurion). Who/what would’ve been the target of such scams at a time when credit cards were a relative novelty?

by /u/Ersatz_Okapi in /r/AskHistorians

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