PHILADELPHIA: The push by MasterCard, Visa and other systems to get retailers and consumers to use computer-chip cards instead of the old magnetic-stripe cards has had a classic unintended side effect:
It has forced more holiday-season thieves to abandon credit-card and debit-card fraud in favour of online-shopping fraud.
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