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During my visit in the US, sometimes my European creditcard would not work with magnetic stripe, the dealer telling me to use the chip. There were some terminal
by gsich 8y ago
During my visit in the US, sometimes my European creditcard would not work with magnetic stripe, the dealer telling me to use the chip. There were some terminals which had a non working chip-reader, you had to enter the cardnumber + CVV to pay.
- tjoff 8y agoNot sure what your point is, the success rate of a magnetic skimmer would be 100% regardless.
- gsich 8y agoThat the home bank somehow knows that you just used the magnetic stripe and says "I want the chip". Of course skimming (the act of reading and copying the magnetic data) still works, but payment not.
- tjoff 8y agoMy memory is hazy on this but I believe there is a bit on the magnetic stripe that says "hey, I have a chip please use that instead". And if the terminal supports chips it will probably ask you to use the chip instead. If the terminal does not have a chip reader (or doesn't parse that information) it will allow the purchase. If you are cloning the magnetic stripe you would of course reset that bit and you would be all good.