Reply to post: John Lewis use printed barcodes

Crap gift card security helps crims spend your birthday pressie cash

Gavin Chester

John Lewis use printed barcodes

Not sure it makes any odds as to the mechanism of discovering valid accounts, but you would hope the staff are trained not to accept cards with stickers with new bar codes printed on...

Mind you monochrome card printers are probably just as cheap as mag stripe reader / writers...

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