Posted on 02/08/2014 3:14:06 AM PST by kingattax
These credit cards are dinosaurs.
Every credit card in the U.S. will be replaced by October 2015 with new cards that contain the chip-and-PIN technology that the rest of the world has had for years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Both Visa and MasterCard are committed to the switch, which will render extinct the plastic in your wallets and purses right now.
No more black magnetic stripes; no more signing on the dotted line.
Americans who have traveled to Europe in recent years will know that the U.S.'s credit card system is embarrassingly old-fashioned by comparison. It's often difficult to use American credit cards abroad because the Europeans abandoned magnetic stripes and signatures years ago they were too easily hacked. Credit and debit cards in the U.S. are about 10 years behind the rest of the world.
The new cards contain a microchip and require the owner to enter a PIN into a payment machine at checkout.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Ditto me. Same ol’atm process all over the world and sign on tge line.
No card can be 100% safe.
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You probably know this, but your response was funny.
BFL
Some of the globalist/free trader/world traveler types here will get in line for that immediately, with excuses like their job requires it.
I used Credit Cards in Europe without too much trouble.
But make sure you get a card that won’t charge foreign transaction fees.
I got the Capital One Venture card.
I am talking stores with POS systems with connected pin pads. Target, Walmart, Sam’s and the such..
I doubt you give those terminals away.
And your “free” terminals are paid for by the merchants. Just not directly. It’s in the monthly fee and per transaction fee. (not that there is anything wrong with this, but they are not “free” ;) )
It's called "tinnitus".
bkmk
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