Stealing your card details
If you have visited LULU,FFC or Carrefour you might have noticed the after the billing is done and your card is swipped for the amount in the POS machine, there is a second swipe that the cashier does. This is on the billing machine. This is a card reader which reads data off your card, like all the stuff on your card and I assume it stores our information on the shops database.
Is this practice even legal?Taking my card information without asking my persmission (she does not ask me)and use it for whatever!!This raises a lot of questions on data privacy and so on.
Infact I have noticed this practice not just in LULU or FFC but other big stores in all the malls.
When I asked a cashier in LULU why she is swipping my card details, she just would'nt answer. Don't know if she did not know it herself or did not want to answer me!
They're free to have a look at the funny name on my ATM card.
It's whatever the Arab at the bank transliterated as my name in English...
"Right now it is a free for all who want to meddle with somebody else's identity."
No, it's not.
I got an update on this from a good friend at a bank.
They do this to process payment transactions with the banks, the storage of such data is not under compliance with VISA or MASTER standards. In the Qatar, all outlets have to be compliant by 2012. Right now it is a free for all who want to meddle with somebody else's identity.
I only pay in chewing gum, each pack is equivalent to QR 0.5 ... you should see me when I bought a car, it was a difficult chore to carry that (I used the same people who helped me move into my house), and I had to stay there for 5 hours while they counted it.
With Puff on this one... cash is just easier
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If you are really worried, always follow the person when they take your card if it is not 'chip and pin'.
Be wary of any chip and pin pads etc that look like they have been tampered with.
We had some big problems in UK:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article714402.ece
I only pay cash. No headaches at all.
if you are really that much concerned, don't use ur credit card at such outlets.
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Only use where they just use your CHIP side and get your PINCODE only
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Everybody wishes they could go to heaven but no one wants to die.
"dgoodrebel will always be the rebellious good one"
Roadtester is right.
And in any case, now that cards are being fitted with chips, it is getting harder and harder to make transactions with the information encoded in the stripe alone.
It's nothing to be concerned about. And if you don't like it, don't use your card, since giving your card to the sales attendant is giving implicit approval for it to be used to process the transaction.
Moreover, they swap it to get CARD number only as to book into their database. Just incase of dispute
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Everybody wishes they could go to heaven but no one wants to die.
Roadster is correct.
I think Roadtester is right.
LoL DaRuDe....
wat if someone dont have cash and the option is only CARD ?? :(
but no worries, let them swipe, swine, sweat or watever to my card coz there aint any balance in my ac.....:)
I thought this is done so that the purchase is creditied to the till as the payment machine is not linked to the till.
that scared than pay cash and stop whining