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Are the CC companies really sending out pin and chip cards soon? Or is it just another half-assed security measure?

Posted by tobor.2 (aka liioulu) May 19 '15, 21:48

And why are they sending out snail mail announcing it rather than just sending the cards.

(This will be the third new card this year on one account. There was some odd action on it the beginning of the year.)

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I got my first chip card a couple months back (no pin though) -- nm - decline May 20, 06:44
My Chase Freedom card is the only card I have with a chip and Walmart is the only retailer reading it. pointless -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:22 2
- at monte carlo, the pizza place by my house (which I will still go to after I move), they have a chip reader. it's so annoying because - amanda May 20, 06:37 1
  - it seems to take longer to get an authorization - *shrug* -- nm - Epiphany May 20, 06:38
They'll be chip cards but not PIN. They'll also have the stripe so they're not all that more secure. -- nm - iSpam May 20, 03:41 2
- Woo! Pointless Half-Measures! -- nm - Reagen May 20, 05:28 1
  - But they're DOING SOMETHING -- nm - iSpam May 20, 06:05
2 of my cards have C.H.I.P.S. -- nm - Peglegpete May 19, 22:05 1
- Ponch? -- nm - mafic May 19, 22:10
My most recent Citi Mastercard has a chip, no pin though - or not that I've asked for. - Meg May 19, 21:58 2
- I carry six cards on a daily basis. two have chips. -- nm - amanda May 20, 05:53 1
  - Just got notified that two of my cards are sending chipped versions. One I just got my new card two months ago -- (edited) - iSpam May 20, 06:36
Well if you get chips and pins you will finally be the same as Australia, NZ and most of Europe -- nm - Karl_S May 19, 21:57 7
- I loved that I had a true Chip and PIN card in Ireland. It allowed me to buy train tickets much more easily. - spamlet May 20, 06:44
- We too have had them for years. It amazes me that the U.S. doesn't. -- nm - San Andreas May 20, 04:14 2
  - Just wait until they get PayPass!! -- nm - Shaun May 20, 06:08
  - nice nick! -- nm - amanda May 20, 05:45
- Unfortunately retailers are going to drag their feet on this subject too. -- nm - Qale May 19, 22:49 2
  - I do believe there is a deadline for merchants to get new readers for chips -- nm - zeitgeist May 20, 00:40
  - I think in Aus the banks said if the card has chip/pin we will take the risk of fraud, if you don't its on the store -- nm - Karl_S May 19, 23:13

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