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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing via SMS krebsonsecurity.com

hulitu6 months ago

> The ultimate goal of these kits, he said, is to phish enough information from victims that their payment cards can be added to mobile wallets and used to buy goods at physical stores, online, or to launder money through shell companies.

I need to enter a pin when i buy with my card over a certain value. Is this not implemented in US ?

juliangoldsmith6 months ago

Most debit cards in the US can be run either as debit or credit. Debit transactions require a PIN, but credit transactions don't.

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