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Originally Posted by Sipowicz
At Tesco's checkout the other day:
Customer presents debit card to checkout girl;
Check out girl: "do you know your PIN madam?"
Customer: "Yes, its blah, blah, blah, blah...................... "
*$£!"** * !!!
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At Tesco's checkout on Saturday ... I went to put my shiny new chip'n'pin card in the reader and the girl said 'it's alright, I'll do it.' She took the card, swiped it in the old fashioned way, and then asked me to use the keypad to enter my PIN.
What's the point in having uncrackable chips if even the shops that have installed the readers are still telling their staff to swipe the card? As we were embroiled in a cloning incident last year (in which some unscrupulous shopkeeper double-swiped Mrs T's card, paying for the transaction with the first swipe and copying all her details with the second), I am personally very keen to see the magnetic strip banished from all cards as soon as possible.