Canadians filling at the pump in USA
It appears that it is not well known how a Canadian Credit Card can be used at a gas pump in the USA without a zip code. All you have to do is insert the card and when it asks for the zip code just...
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rwbradley wrote:
Canada and much of the industrialized world are now using Chip and Pin universally to get around these inconveniences of travelling internationally. Unfortunately despite US committing to going Chip and Pin, due to your countries size, banking complexity or some other variables adoption in the US seems to be slower.
Not sure how things went in your neck of the woods, perhaps there was more "incentive" from the powers that be, but in Europe it took about 3 years to get all the merchants using the card readers.
In the US most merchants have the correct POS devices, but they can't use it either because their processing software hasn't been updated to accommodate the chip, or because they are putting it off.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/the-great-emv-fake-out-no-chip-for-you/
