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cbayer

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1. Apparently that is true pretty much everywhere except the US.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 10:52 AM

Mar 2014

Here in Mexico, the cards have a chip. They are much harder to pirate. People with US cards experience high rates of piracy of their accounts. Those with Mexican cards, very little.

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Is it true that in Europe, credit cards operate on a chip implanted on the card and not [View all] raccoon Mar 2014 OP

Apparently that is true pretty much everywhere except the US. cbayer Mar 2014 #1

See the following Dec. 2013 NPR story... PoliticAverse Mar 2014 #2

When I was in Scandinavia, I found out, at the suggestion of a train ticket seller in Copenhagen, Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2014 #3

That's why I use my American Express abroad mainer Mar 2014 #4

It is hard to get a credit card with a chip in the Empire. I have 3, have asked all of them about raccoon Apr 2014 #5

In Brazil they all have a chip. nt Nay Feb 2015 #6

It is true. The US is so far behind and some merchants in europe don't even cbayer Feb 2015 #7

Lol, did not realize I had previously posted to this thread. cbayer Feb 2015 #8