Winter Garden Magazine August 2014 | Page 19

E M V FRAUD PROOFING YOUR CREDIT CARDS Look for an upgrade coming to your credit cards. In the fight against Credit Card Fraud U.S. Banks are adding something called EMV technology, which stands for “Europay, MasterCard, and Visa.” TRANSLATION: Credit cards will soon be equipped with a super-small computer chip that promises to be extremely difficult to counterfeit. If you have received a new card recently, chances are it already has the EMV technology. Here’s a crazy statistic: Almost half of the world’s credit card fraud now happens in the United States