While Chip & PIN I believe is the standard in Europe, Chip & Sig is more common 
in the U.S.

> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:40:57 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!
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> Just chip, Martin. I got a new chip card last week and used it at Tesco in 
> the UK. Sure, it had to read the chip and could not be swiped, but no PIN, 
> just sign as usual and compare signatures - seems the Brits are much more 
> stringent in checking signatures on cards than in the US. 
> ALH
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Packer <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:26
> Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!
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> Ah Chip & PIN at last.
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> Cheers, Martin
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> From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]>
> To:     [email protected]
> Date:   21/11/2015 16:29
> Subject:        Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card 
> statements!
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> At 09:04 -0700 on 11/21/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Were you 
> at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st:
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> ><x-flowed utf-8>On 11/21/2015 08:49 AM, Bob Shannon wrote:
> >>>  Maybe someone should raise a requirement that the SHARE Hotels 
> >>>credit card system should be secure.
> >>  Seriously Ed? Do you really think a major hotel chain is going to 
> >>tell potential customers their credit card system is insecure?
> >>  
> >Credit card companies are on the verge of providing an incentive by 
> making
> >vendors liable for fraudulent charges on insecure credit cards.
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> That went into effect as of October 1. That is why all the credit 
> cards are being reissued with chips. If a card with a chip is 
> presented to a merchant and the card is swiped in lieu of the chip 
> being read, the merchant is responsible for the fraudulent charge.
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> >-- gil
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