So true, at least the guy that took her card liked shopping a quality stores!
Hopefully one day we won’t even carry cards, they will be on our iPhones and it’s very difficult to get into a phone as the FBI has attested. Walgreens has progressed to where we can use their rewards system from our watch…now I can get the points for shopping and pay for the product all from the watch…THIS is the way it should be everywhere…simple, convenient, secure, fast…Chip cards are so darn slow. Thanks for you help on the various emails I have. John > On Mar 17, 2017, at 11:26 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/17/2017 11:01 AM, John Robinson wrote: >> >> Ahhhh, the wonders of Chip Credit and Debit cards, they are very >> unlikely to be hacked….says who? >> >> I’ve had TWO hacked within the past month, my Chase Debit card with >> $700.00 in airline fees from Germany, then a credit card from another >> bank with someone going wild shopping in San Francisco. > > A good part of this is because banks talk security, but don't practice > it. Chip and signature is easy to fake. Chip and pin is a lot harder. > Who knows what your signature looks like? Anyone can get away with > signing your name. It's a different matter, if there's a four or six > digit pin that the thief doesn't know. > > Even though chip and pin is used all over the world, U.S. banks don't > require it. > > I was reminded of this in an uncomfortable way in December, when my > wife's wallet was stolen. Within a couple of hours the thief had charged > several thousand dollars to her credit cards at Home Depot, Lowe's and > Wal-Mart. If a pin had been required, it would have been a lot harder to > use the cards. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
