Bank Card Signatures

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A mate of mine, not the brightest cookie in the tin, signed the silver magnetic strip on his card, in big black permanent marker because "The biro wouldn't write on it"
 
Only time I ever had an issue with signatures and my card was back when I was a student. It was a couple of years before Chip & Pin came in and the signature on the back of my card had pretty much come off, through use and rubbing on my wallet.

If you look at cards, once the signature wears away, it says 'void' underneath it.

I went to use a local mini supermarket one day, and the manager took offense to the fact that void was starting to show through. He refused to run the card and I even showed him my driving license and another card, yet he still wouldn't use it.

So I paid using a credit card instead. I think he was just being a bit of a douche really, maybe he didn't like students or something.
 
Moredhel said:
A mate of mine, not the brightest cookie in the tin, signed the silver magnetic strip on his card, in big black permanent marker because "The biro wouldn't write on it"
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See silly numbers like that :p
The number of cards we confiscate because someone has 'borrrowed' his GFs is quite amazing at times too!

-Leezer-
 
BigglesPiP said:
My signature NEVER matches. I don't believe it's an adequate form of authentication in 2010.
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Without knowing for sure, my gut feeling would be that it was never really a proper form of authentication - it was simply a means of proof of authorisation, and if you weren't the person entitled to sign you were thusly breaking the law.
 
PMKeates said:
Without knowing for sure, my gut feeling would be that it was never really a proper form of authentication - it was simply a means of proof of authorisation, and if you weren't the person entitled to sign you were thusly breaking the law.
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You mean a tool to more fully prove that someone knew they were breaking the law? A bit like lying under oath, the oath is pretty arbitrary, but it's a very good piece of evidence to show that you knew lying was not allowed.
 
I was lectured a few months back by a lady on the checkouts in Morrisons, their chip and pin reader was playing up, so the first attempt failed.

She takes the card out, looks at it, looks at me, looks at the card and says ' oh.. oh oHHH you've not signed this... you need to sign this, otherwise i cant take payment'.

All this despte the fact that, were it not for their crap machines which are always 'failing', she would never have seen the signature strip.

Daft.
 
Moral: make a gay sig whenever you have to sign in a 3rd world country that isnt electronic.
 
I had to sign for a parking permit the other day and thought by god thats never my signature. But the guy never evened looked at the back of my card to check (ok, the drivers license and council tax bill I used as proof of address probably helped)
 
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