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Bank-card-sniffing shop menace Punkey pinned down in US Secret Service investigation

Friday 17th April 2015 18:28 GMT Anonymous Coward

connected to the internet?

well, they do need to validate your card at time of purchase. would you prefer they had a database of every card in the world in an 'offline' system for lookup?

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