Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

thats crap,would be looking elsewhere.:eek:

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I saw a program on this, it was shocking, (but to be fair I was not very supprised,) to see the Banks claiming Chip and Pin was secure, so when a fraud was commited they just washed their hands of it.
Their reasoning is that you must have told someone your chip and pin number and therefore you have broken the rules in your chip and pin contract and guess what!!! the Bank will not reinburse you.
Never liked chip and pin, I use it when I have no choice. Here in Sunny Morocco the supermarket have only one machine and it is impossible to cover the keys when you use it.
In anyone is interested my pin number is:1234

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

Now there's a coincidence..................
:cool:

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

oh no my luggage is the same number, thay means I'll have to change it, how about 6789?

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

No that's the number of my Swiss bank account.
;)

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

I think chip and pin in stores is left secure than the old signing method, the only thing it saves is a little bit of time.

As for identity fraud like that Benipete, its not that the police don't care, it's just one of the hardest crimes to actually deal with. Murderers and rapists dont tend to be professionals at what they do and leave behind all sorts of evidence, but identity fraud is committed by people who class what they do as a career and are amazing good at it, the same goes for hackers.

The government does actually get experienced hackers to work for them as retribution after convictions, so sometimes they do go straight, but when you imagine the money you can make from being great at these kind of things and not getting caught, why would you want to work for the government for a percentage of your potential income as a crook?

It can take years to sort yourself out once you have been a victim of identity fraud, so basically you just have to be very careful with your documents and information, particularly on the internet, and hope you dont get caught out. I must admit i'm not particularly cautious with my documents, but when you see people getting victimised via identity fraud its not nice at all and it does make you worry!

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

Thanks for the input blazey but I gave the police the address the card was sent to in Uxbridge and the address of the building society in Ruislip were the cash was withdrawn along with a store card from Harrods, six mobile phone accounts and dozens of phone numbers.Someone must have a photo of the person concerned.
The police said they could not trace the phone calls because of the EU human rights act.

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

are ya serious about em not tracing phone calls cos of human rights? unbelievable, for once even i am gobsmacked, so the scumbag who does it has more ******* rights than the victim.:mad:

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

It would appear so and by the way my details were given to the person from a call center in Ireland.They even gave my old address as part of the security so the kind man at the center gave them my new one.

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

no but some have complete faith in it.:confused: i did once.

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

Dig at me eh Less, oh, most ATMs run Windows..........

Sorry I haven't responded earlier but I was away for a couple of days with work(Madrid was very nice BTW :D ).


Chip and pin is more secure than signature for one huge reason. When you pay you must know the pin, the number of times that I paid with a card where the signature strip was worn away and was never challenged was untrue. Even if you have some dodgy cashier and his mate, unless they know your pin they can't authorise the payment. i.e. you have taken the check away from a human who can be lazy/influenced and given it to a machine who can't be swayed.

When you pay, it is your responisibility to make sure your pin is safe. I cover the pin pad with my left hand so no-one can see what number I'm typing and have even been known to ask someone to move who was shoulder surfing. Don't pretend your own lax standards are the banks fault, they aren't

The pinpad on ATMs are fully hardware encrypted so even if you could 'read' the data being passed internally within the ATM its useless to you. The security for the loading of keys is industry standard and extremely secure. To the point that there was a cock up at one bank who 'accidentally' connected a test machine to their mainframe, All Banks had new encryption keys loaded within 24 hours. The current best time to crack the level we encrypt to is thought to be in the region of 200 years( In fact one of the lesser known uses of Sony PS3s is that they can be grid'd to make suprememly powerful number crunching cells for scientific research).

As with all things, security is as good as the weakest link in the chain, that is usually flesh based. Lets be honest, if a bloke threatened you with a knife/gun at an ATM you'd give him the money/pin/card/whatever.


Less, I think you need to find a new bank. I've never heard of someone charging to use the teller service. Can I recommend Barclays, a good bank who only employ the highest calibre of people :D

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

I disagree, I've seen many peoples pin numbers in front of me in stores and at cash machines. Would only take an experienced pick pocket to them attain the card and off you can go around the shops without even having to practice their signature if its on the card.

I also would NEVER EVER recommend barclays lol... go for RBS!

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

:eek:, what ya doing looking at people put there pin number in?, ya supposed to be polite and look away:p, ya cheeky mare:rolleyes::hidewall:

Re: So you think your 'Chip & Pin' card is safe
 

Can you remember them all and Isn't RBS part of the Halifax group with call centers in Ireland that put me through 3 years of pain