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Fishergate Shopping Centre car park paying machine proves popular
7:33am Saturday 17th May 2008
Fishergate Shopping Centre has installed a chip and pin facility in its car park for shoppers using credit/debit cards as method of payment.
The new facility, installed last month, has already proven to be very popular with customers, as the number of people using the credit card facility has greatly increased since its introduction.
Keith Mitchell, Fishergate Shopping Centre Manager, said: "Safety and security is our number one priority to our shoppers.
"We introduced our ChipCoin car parking system in April 2006, to provide a faster, safer and more efficient way of paying for car parking.
"The Chip and Pin facility, which is now commonplace amongst most retailers, will provide extra protection for shoppers as well as assist cc fraud reductions in the community."
According to Chip and Pin, since its introduction in 2005, there was a reduction of nearly £60m in counterfeit and fraud on lost and stolen cards when compared to 2004.
Extra car park staff will be on hand to assist shoppers with any queries they may have.
Shoppers are still able to make payments using the traditional cash method.
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Roger, London says...
12:09pm Sat 17 May 08
Massive increase in fraud crimes should make the government and banks realise that their data protection and Chip and PIN systems are diverting rather than deterring fraud crimes simply because these systems are not making signature and PIN system reliable.
This shows that fraud will continue to grow until they exploit KEY and PIN system described on website www.xwave.co.uk which will deter BOTH identity and card fraud by making signature and PIN systems reliable and foolproof.
Fake documents have made our signature system unreliable while skimmers and pin-hole cameras etc. have made PIN system unreliable. We have option to make signatures reliable by personalising them with ID stickers and option to use Card Key Code to make PIN system reliable to make use of stolen and skimmed cards meaningless. By ignoring to exploit this system banks are only letting fraud crimes grow.
ID KEY system will eliminate the need for us to protect our personal and card details since fraudsters will be deterred from misusing these stolen details.
Proposed ID KEY can be treated as a reliable international ID card because it will personalise signature and PIN number to only the right individuals in any country.
We hope that the government and banks will appreciate these details and exploit KEY and PIN system before it is too late to stop a fraud boom.
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Roger, London says...
12:09pm Sat 17 May 08
Massive increase in fraud crimes should make the government and banks realise that their data protection and Chip and PIN systems are diverting rather than deterring fraud crimes simply because these systems are not making signature and PIN system reliable.
This shows that fraud will continue to grow until they exploit KEY and PIN system described on website www.xwave.co.uk which will deter BOTH identity and card fraud by making signature and PIN systems reliable and foolproof.
Fake documents have made our signature system unreliable while skimmers and pin-hole cameras etc. have made PIN system unreliable. We have option to make signatures reliable by personalising them with ID stickers and option to use Card Key Code to make PIN system reliable to make use of stolen and skimmed cards meaningless. By ignoring to exploit this system banks are only letting fraud crimes grow.
ID KEY system will eliminate the need for us to protect our personal and card details since fraudsters will be deterred from misusing these stolen details.
Proposed ID KEY can be treated as a reliable international ID card because it will personalise signature and PIN number to only the right individuals in any country.
We hope that the government and banks will appreciate these details and exploit KEY and PIN system before it is too late to stop a fraud boom.