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by barbazoo 1191 days ago
This sucks, totally. And also a lesson not to give your card out. Something doesn't sound right though. If the mag stripe was used, they'd need a signature right? If the chip was used, in my experience, you need to enter the pin. If tap was used the amount would have been too big in my experience. How were these charges authorized?
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pin is not required for credit card. It may be required for debit card. Also, nobody use mag stripe cards.
That sucks. Where I am in Canada I've never seen PIN-less payment via chip. It's either chip+PIN or tap.