How NOT to Deal with Credit Card Fraud: A Case Study

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11. EMV is being rolled out over here.

American Express (who I work for, and these are my words and not Amex's) are ramping up the roll out of EMV chip cards. If you have an American Express charge or credit card and if you want an EMV chip card, you can call and ask for one. Selected card members are receiving EMV chip cards ahead of renewal, and if you need a replacement card it's likely you'll get an EMV chip equipped card. Eventually all the cards will have EMV chips on them.

Other organizations are ahead of the game too. State Employee's Credit Union (here in NC) have EMV enabled cards for all of their members and have had for quite some time.

I call it the EMV chip because it comes in two main flavors - Chip & Pin and Chip & Signature. I'm not aware of any plans my employer has to have card products that are Chip & Pin enabled in the USA.