Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The way in which stores accept credit cards in person is about to change. If your credit card came with a little gold chip on the front you will notice. When you slide your card in person you will receive a message telling you that you must use this as an EMV chip card. This means that you will insert it into the machine and you may have to enter a pin. Much like you do with an ATM card. This type of credit card is already commonly used in Canada and Europe. The card helps to combat credit card fraud by making it more difficult to clone or copy a card. The main benefit of this is that it will make it more difficult for criminals to benefit from using a skimmer. Even if the criminals are able to get a copy of the magnetic strip of your credit card with a skimmer, when they try to use the cards at a store, it will inform them that they must use the chip to complete the transaction. The scammers will not be able to complete the chip transaction so the fraud will be prevented. Businesses are being pushed into […]
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