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Originally Posted by Chee
Credit cards are very unsecured.
It seem, someone can read the information of it without you even realizing it.
You need to keep it in a secure wallet with a metallic lining to prevent it being read remotely.
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I would not bother with that. The chances of someone skimming your card as they walk by are likely to be much lower than finding your card details stolen from a not secure enough site where you have used it and sold on, or simply having it generated by software that creates random, potentially valid card details to try out (Which has been around for years, a schoolfriends brother got nailed for it 15 years ago or so, ironically it turned out to be the card of a relative of his that got him caught, distant enough to know he did not just pinch the card to get the numbers)
Same deal as was mentioned before, they try out numbers from the software to see if it is valid using a small transaction and if it goes through, try again for a much larger amount. It is probably tougher now that the use of the CSC is spreading.