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Old Jun 11, 2015, 10:58 pm
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Originally Posted by bullfrog
I asked the woman checking me in about this. She said they'd had cases of people using cards issued to them, in their name, and rewriting the mag stripe with stolen info.
a/k/a magstripe cloning. Reminds me of the Jack in the Box ad where the guy brags about making his own sandwich combining a bunch of ingredients from scratch, cutting to Jack holding up a JB product saying, "Ummm ... my way is easier." (EMV as a solution)
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