[153689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jun 10 16:09:42 2012
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:09:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.1.10.1206101241350.1235@peregrinwifi.orthanc.ca>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> In the late 1990s I had a Visa card from (I think) Citibank that had my
> picture embossed on the front of the card. I'm surprised this didn't catch
> on with more card issuers. I see that Bank of America offers this free of
> charge to their Visa clients, as do some US based credit unions.
>
> That card was never lost or stolen, so I don't know if the photo verification
> would fail as spectacularly as signatures do.
That's obviously only going to be of use in cases where the card is
physically stolen and used in-person. I don't have the numbers, but I
strongly suspect that sort of credit card fraud is a small minority, with
the majority being CNP transactions. I've personally had several
instances of one of my card numbers being used fraudulently (for
everything from online casino gambling to tractor parts to hotel charges
in countries I've never been to), but never via the card having physically
been stolen.
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