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Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers

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Re: Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers

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Post by michaelmior »

canadianwatcher wrote: post #477
michaelmior wrote: post #389

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When I first moved from Canada to the US, before I got an American credit card, I used my Canadian card to tap as I was so used to doing. More than once, the clerk looked at me as though I were a wizard.

That's funny, I had similar experiences moving from the United States to Canada. When most people were paying with their debit cards at the terminal, I would tap my credit card (at the time issued from the United States) and have no signature. Like in your case, some clerks seemed surprised.

That's surprising since cards with tap became common in Canada much earlier than the US. Although mobile payments took longer to catch on.

Re: Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers

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Post by canadianwatcher »

michaelmior wrote: post #481
canadianwatcher wrote: post #477

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's funny, I had similar experiences moving from the United States to Canada. When most people were paying with their debit cards at the terminal, I would tap my credit card (at the time issued from the United States) and have no signature. Like in your case, some clerks seemed surprised.

That's surprising since cards with tap became common in Canada much earlier than the US. Although mobile payments took longer to catch on.

I'm not sure that's fair, given the technology was first used as early as 2004 in the United States.

https://www.globalpaymentsintegrated.com/en-us/blog/2020/09/...

I'm unable to measure how "common" it was across two giant land masses with very different populations sizes. My personal story was paying by credit card via tap and requiring no signature, with a card issued in the United States while in Canada, and having people be very surprised at its use.

Re: Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers

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Post by zepppotemkin »

jjav wrote: post #322
TillE wrote: post #218

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Difficult to overstate how much you're in an extreme, extreme minority position if you own a smartphone and don't carry it around pretty much everywhere.

My phone lives in my backpack, if I don't have my backpack on me (which is most of the time) I'm not going to have a phone.

that's one of the pirmary things for me too even as a guy with usually large pockets i find it annoying to walk around with them in my pocket espcially in the summer

plus on the bus or train I usually use a book or my kindle so it's easy to forget the phone

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