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My debit card got skimmed at a gas station this past week. It was used that same day to make purchases in LA (about 3 hours south of me). Now that this is happ
by callmeed 13y ago
My debit card got skimmed at a gas station this past week. It was used that same day to make purchases in LA (about 3 hours south of me).
Now that this is happening in other types of retail stores, maybe it will spur the use of more secure options (chip and pin?).
- Sami_Lehtinen 13y agoNobody is using MSR anymore, Chip & PIN + PCI stuff has been the norm for several payment terminal and card generations already. So like 10+ years.
- chrissnell 13y agoWhat? Where is this? I don't think that you're talking about the gas station card readers in the US.
- paulgb 13y agoChip and pin has been widely used in Canada and Europe for a few years now.
- dangrossman 13y ago> Nobody is using MSR anymore The entire US still is, and that represents more transactions per day than happen in all of Europe.
- rwmj 13y agoThe population of the EU is twice the US.
- dangrossman 13y agoBut they do not use Visa cards at the same rate as the US. I didn't pull that out of thin air. EU only makes up about 40M of the 200M+ daily transactions VisaNet handles.
- becauseICan 13y agoVisa's corporate website http://corporate.visa.com/about-visa/technology/transaction-processing.shtml http://corporate.visa.com/about-visa/technology/transaction-... suggests that the quoted numbers, "40M of the 200M+", numbers are wrong or misleading. Possibly they are based on the highest volume day? "VisaNet authorizes, clears and settles an average of 150 million transactions per day in 200 countries and territories." Either way, the best way to prove an assertion based on numbers is to source it.