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the pin is secured on the chip frank...anyone can decode the chip to give them the pin and other info like name, date of birth, whatever the banks have on there
 
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dem maser said:
the pin is secured on the chip frank...anyone can decode the chip to give them the pin and other info like name, date of birth, whatever the banks have on there
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A large part of europe doesn't even use the pin side of the technology , so it doesn't surprise me that a lot of the card theft here ends up being done abroad , wish we could go back to old fashioned cash , now i wouldn't of left that in the car would i

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Well.......surely it should be encrypted.......only regional centres have equipment to read....let say......BANKS!!!!?????


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Parisien said:
Well.......surely it should be encrypted.......only regional centres have equipment to read....let say......BANKS!!!!?????


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Your right it should Frank,and may well be , but if you remember about a year ago i posted about those two Romanians that got caught in front of me at Asda in Biggleswade they had a replica front of the cash point which was a card reader , stuck very professionally to the front of the cashpoint, apparently they let around 20 or 30 people use the cash points , then take off their bit copy the info onto cloned cards and then go on a cash withdrawing spree all over town , fortunately these two got caught , probably claimed refugee status and persecution , got offered £3K by some liberal home office official to return home , only to return again weeks later durrr do i sound cynical


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.....am laffin here Loz........great reply......I like a man who cogitates..........;)


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Parisien said:
.....am laffin here Loz........great reply......I like a man who cogitates..........;)


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The organised crime perpertrated by the eastern europeans (including) ex russian states could have been halted by one man who had a good solution to the problem unfortunately he committed suicide in 1945 and then got burned , the other guy who could have cracked it Maggies no2 our dear old Norman lost power got old to quickly and is now happily retired , what a shame


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GransportFan1 said:
sorry to hear about this loz, at least your laptop was not stolen.
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Cheers Adam on the upside it was my oldest tom tom with uk maps only, my work plans are the most important but atleast i can get copies made and then the aftermath of the bank thing , so not the end of the world just annoying that its probably someone who passes quite reguarly oppurtunist, now i will be eyeing every youth that passes with suspicion totally unfair i know but thats how you feel


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bastards - sounds like rotten luck- agree with woody, you shouldn't feel guilty. I've often thought that cutting car thieves thumbs off would be an excellent way to discourage them.....
 
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the most annoying thing is you dont know who done it....you think, was it my neighbour? was it the youths having a smoke in the street? you get suspicious of anyone
 
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Really sorry to hear this Loz. Thieving little flockers! Though I can see Si's thinking, I'd personally cut off their feet!
 
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Gosh no... that's how many just on here in so many days... awful - sorry to here and hope all get sorted with minimal disruption, i agree and believe in every dog and comes around etc...
 
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Bit of a worrying trend at the moment!

Loz, have you had any offers of victim support yet?? I've had three letters from them but nothing from the rozzers.

Did I read previously that you had a security camera?
 
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