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From the FAQ: "As an additional safeguard, the Coin app will only allow you to add cards you own." So it sounds like if the name doesn't match, it won't work (
by berberous 13y ago
From the FAQ: "As an additional safeguard, the Coin app will only allow you to add cards you own."
So it sounds like if the name doesn't match, it won't work (you have to take a picture of the front).
- rexreed 13y agoAnd how exactly is this verified? I don't think there's OCR there to verify that it's your card you just snapped a photo of.
- eekfuh 13y agoThe magstripe data has all the name information in it.
- mmanfrin 13y agoSwiping a card passes along the name on the card.
- rexreed 13y agoBut a waiter doesn't ask for ID when taking your card... so even if the Coin identifies you as John Smith when you pay your check, the fact that you are Steve Jackson who presented the card doesn't mean anything. And you can have multiple cards with multiple names in your Coin.
- RandallBrown 13y agoI believe the coin app will only put cards on the Coin that match the name that is on your account.
- mmanfrin 13y agoPlease look at the context of my comment.
- colinbartlett 13y agoCard.io will scan cards and OCR them. Maybe they do something like this to ensure the name matches the registered name on the account? https://www.card.io https://www.card.io Edit: And it's on the magnetic data, too.
- rickyc091 13y agoCouldn't you technically bypass the OCR by taping a piece of paper with a different name or number over it? Does the magnetic data store the name?
- legohead 13y agoI go by my middle name, but some places have forced me to use my first name, so my cards are a mix of my first+last and middle+last name. So then I would look like two different people to this coin wallet?
- arbitrage 13y agoExcept that names aren't required to match on credit cards. For instance, my wife is an authorized user on my card. Her signature is on the back, my name is on the front. Similar situations abound for business use cards.
- aianus 13y agoThat's strange. My girlfriend is an authorized user on my card in Canada and it has her name on the front and she has her own PIN that I don't know.
- adambard 13y agoWe seem to have stronger laws about this sort of thing in place at the moment. In the US, it seems, just swiping the magnetic stripe is still the way it's done. How quaint!
- dublinben 13y agoIf you're an authorized user on a credit card, you're issued a card in your own name. I'm not sure what you're doing is compliant.
- PeterisP 13y agoThe company card I used had my name on it, as for all other cardholders; and cards with wrong gender are treated in shops as unacceptable if they notice, though in 90% cases they don't, unless if it's a large purchase and they want ID.
- dakrisht 13y agoMatch? How? With OCR and image processing? Currently, one assumes you can take a picture of any card and store it for visual purposes. There's zero explanation of how they authenticate a physical card (photo) with the swipe data.