International credit card scamsters, including those based in
In February, hundreds of car owners in
As a safety measure, British banks have introduced a ''chip and pin'' system for transactions in shops using credit and debit cards. This means that for every purchase, apart from the card, the customer also needs to punch in an exclusive pin number. Signing for purchases using cards has been virtually phased out to prevent frauds. The absence of the chip-and-pin technology in some foreign countries has made the use of skimmed or cloned cards abroad relatively more attractive to criminals, APCS said.
''Although card fraud levels have now begun to go up again due to fraud abroad and card-not-present fraud losses, chip-and-pin has proven to be an undoubted success in reducing card fraud on the
This was an interesting piece of news picked up by NDTV 24x7. I am always worried about the safety of my credit cards especially of it falling in the wrong hands. I received this news from NDTV 24x7 through my DirecTV connection.
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