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How crooks are using a legal app to steal your bank card details in under one SECOND

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"The Sun on Sunday tested it on a busy high street and were able to clone a test 'victim's' credit card in seconds"

From "How crooks are using a legal app to steal your bank card details in under one SECOND".

This is, of course, fake news. You can’t clone an EMV card using the card number and expiry date (both of which are printed on the from of the card anyway) and if merchants allow a crook to order something using only the card number and expiry date (ie, without asking for the security code or address) then they are liable for the fraud. Cardholders are completely protected.

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