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Originally Posted by radeonboy
For those getting gas at Point Roberts, be sure to double check the machine for card skimmers. One of my friends believes his card got skimmed at a gas station there on Friday - he got a bunch of random charges to his card over the weekend.
He said he uses that card only at a few large US vendors, so it's very unlikely the card was compromised through those channels.
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A buddy of mine working in a security firm told me a while back that you should either request a card without magnetic stripes (yes, they exist now) or put foil tape on the stripe if you have those. There are literally more places that take chip/taps nowadays that having the magnetic stripe is just a security vulnerability waiting to be exploited.