Risks of using your card for shopping
Although the practice is not widely spread in Romania as it is abroad, consumers use their cards to make payments via a POS device installed by banks.
In this case, cards can be skimmed as well, but much easily, because you offer your plastic to the employee to make the payment.
Cards can be skimmed both at cashpoint and at the points of sale. In this case, don’t let your card out of sight, make sure the employee has the POS device on sight and that the card is not swiped through a different machine before the POS.
The common practice is to swipe the card through two different handheld devices, a real one and a bogus one. This way, the criminals will have your card details and personal identification number, and will be able to create a duplicate card.
In this case, cards can be skimmed as well, but much easily, because you offer your plastic to the employee to make the payment.
Cards can be skimmed both at cashpoint and at the points of sale. In this case, don’t let your card out of sight, make sure the employee has the POS device on sight and that the card is not swiped through a different machine before the POS.
The common practice is to swipe the card through two different handheld devices, a real one and a bogus one. This way, the criminals will have your card details and personal identification number, and will be able to create a duplicate card.