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Credit card security

When I was in a shop today I handed over my HSBC credit card and having swiped it the woman behind the till then shon a blue/purple laser or UV? pen on the top left hand of the face of the card and told me they had to do that as they were getting a lot of cloned cards.

Any ideas what this security feature is, I could understand fake replica cards with details of cloned cards on the strip but intelegent cloners use real cards replacing the contents of the magnetic strip with that of a cloned card so the number on the front doesn't agree with that on the back.

Regards

Chris

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Chris
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There's an image on the front of the card (on a Visa card I think its some kind of bird) that shows up under UV light. Perhaps that's what they were checking for.

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Chris Blunt

Yeah it is... after another hour of searching I eventually found an industry wide retailer training document regarding card security saying that what the UV symbols are

A flying dove on Visa cards The letters MC on MasterCards The letters AM EX with the Centurion logo, in the middle of American Express cards The Switch/Solo symbol on Switch and Solo cards

and details of the various other things to check, that the card receipts or display has the same number as embossed of a swiped card, whether the signature strip is altered etc, whether the hologram is really holographic and the procedures for card retention (with the 50 minmimum reward mentioned repeatedly) and details of how to make a "Code 10" call to your payment authoristation centre which will get transfered to the fraud department on you saying that and what will then happen.

Chris

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Chris

And in case anyone doesn't know, most if not all of this is at

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Regards, Far

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Far

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