[Magdalen] Disappearing money - please pray

[Marion Thompson]

We have it up here in Canada, certainly in the Greater Toronto Area /et 
environs/.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 9/1/2015 5:22 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> They are debit or credit cards which you can hold over a reader and an 
> embedded chip makes a connection with the reader to allow the 
> transaction from your account to the receiving account.  Certainly in 
> the UK there is a limit in the value of the transaction, currently 20 
> GBP but shortly to go ip to 30 GBP.
>
> Higher value transactions need to be validated with the card-holder's 
> PIN which we are well-used to for card transactions in this country.  
> It always amazes me that Chip and PIN is not used to the same extent 
> in the USA.  It is less open to fraud than signing the credit card 
> slip (how many staff even make a cursory comparison of the signature 
> on the slip and that on the card?).
>
> Roger
>