[thechat] Presentation of food

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Jan 31 19:31:00 CST 2003


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Ben Dyer wrote:

> At 03:15 AM 1/31/2003, you wrote:
> > > These are also the restaurants where the scammers work who double-swipe
> > > your credit card or swipe it on a personal reader to rip you off at a later
> > > date.
> >
> >Not for much longer...
> >http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/cardholders/index.html
> >becoming a global standard, specifically to combat this (and other) kinds
> >of card fraud.
>
> Ah, so people can watch me enter my PIN and then mug me for my card later? ;)

The readers have wee screens on them.

Cheers
Martin

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