'Shimmers' are the newest tool for stealing credit card info

Re:'Shimmers' are the newest tool for stealing credit card info by cpncrunch on Saturday January 28, 2017 @08:32PM (#13511117)

>They are not moving to chip and pin, but chip and signature: very different.

No, that's not quite true. They are moving to chip+pin, but some card issuers are not currently issuing PINs. However the machines themselves fully support chip+pin (and I can confirm this, as most places in the USA now require me to enter a PIN for my card).

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/emv-faq-chip-car...

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Re:'Shimmers' are the newest tool for stealing credit card info by drewg123 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:26PM (#13511458)

And even if you want a PIN for your card, the credit card company doesn't know how to give it to you. Last summer, before I went to a conference in Canada, I called all 3 of my credit cards's customer service departments trying to get a PIN (American Express, Discover, MasterCard), and none of them would issue a PIN for my chip'ed card. I don't think any of the CSRs even knew what I was talking about. One even told me that PIN's were "just for debit cards". Sigh.

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Re:'Shimmers' are the newest tool for stealing credit card info by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:14PM (#13511722)

I use a debit card with a pin and some retailers still do a signature transaction for me without any choice.

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