Originally Posted by
Points Scrounger
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)
Would the computer asking for the last four and comparing whatever the clerk enters with the magstripe data have helped too? Though I guess it's still possible to find stolen data with the same last four digits.