[Magdalen] Disappearing money - please pray

[Charles Wohlers]

Recently got my BofA debit card with chip. Not much of anywhere to use it, 
however.

Here in the US PINs are always used for debit cards (I've had the same one 
since ATM machines arrived), never for credit cards.


Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Stokes
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 5:22 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Disappearing money - please pray

On 01/09/2015 22:00, Sally Davies wrote:
> Thanks, beloved friends, for all the prayers and support. I just spoke to
> Keith and he says that that bank did eventually credit the money to his
> account, though they certainly took their time...but in time for the rent 
> payment to go through.

TBTG for that.

> Earlier on I was watching Sky business news with a story about 
> "contactless
> cards" which are now becoming very popular. I have no idea what those are
> but if they render cash unnecessary it will certainly be a big help!!

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