Ian G wrote:
Have a look at the holographic logo on your credit card ... that's a brand that is hard to copy that the *merchant* can check.
But even they don't. I stopped signing my debit/credit cards about 6 months ago. I use my debit card heavily and only ONCE was I asked to show ID. Doesn't give me a warm/fuzzy feeling if I ever lose my cards. If they're not even bothering to check for a signature I doubt they're checking the authenticity of the hologram. In practice, it's too much to ask some minimum-wage earning fool at the supermarket (I can say that because I was once one) to not become complacent. The problem is that given enough time and repetitiveness of something just about everyone will become complacent.
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