The so-called 'Electron' cards (e.g. VISA Electron) don't have embossed characters - just ordinary printed characters. Banks often provide these as lower cost c

The so-called 'Electron' cards (e.g. VISA Electron) don't have embossed characters - just ordinary printed characters. Banks often provide these as lower cost cards or cards for children. As the main difference from 'ordinary' cards is that you can't take a carbon copy I'm not sure why they're considered more 'child safe'. Maybe there's more than that, but as far as I can tell they work for everything else - my wife got one of those from the bank.