Watch out for new chip and pin credit cards

If anyone is using the new chip and in credit cards that are being issued in the uk and elsewhere, or have friends coming form overseas, then beware.

I tried to use mine in Big C today. Thailand, lagging behind the times, has not had the equipment to handle chip and pin and so the cards default to the swipe and sign mode. But, Big C seems to have new euipment that handles chip and pin. Trouble is, nobody has trained the cashier in what to do, so when faced with a request for a pin number she quickly typed in zeroes, without asking me. This happened 3 times, during which she would not stop and listen to me, and of course then the card was declined and blocked, and i can't use it again until i go back to the uk and reset the pin number.

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