And lo on Thu, 01 May 2008 16:56:37 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> In the same vein it constantly astonishes me how many people tap their  
>> PIN number for their credit/debit cards into shop terminals without a  
>> care in the world.
>
> That's why I only have credit cards and not debit cards.

Ditto, you get a delay in transactions and extra fraud protection.

> (Other than an ATM card, which I'm careful with at the machine in much  
> the same way. :-)

See Warp you can't be paranoid if more then one person acts in the same  
way :-P

> Of course, living in a country where the banks tend to take the hit  
> rather than the bank's customers helps too.

IIRC the burden is spread between the bank and the store (if regarding a  
purchase) with the store often getting the short end of the stick.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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