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Originally Posted by taustin
US credit cards do not have PIN. Debit cards do, but credit cards do not. (I gather actual credit cards are far less common outside the US, and that they do actually have a PIN of some sort when they do exist.)
This is becoming more of an issue, and either Visa or Mastercard is currently implementing a chip-and-pin system on all their cards, but it will take a decade or more before they can do away with the old system entirely.
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So do you still have to sign something for a credit card in the US?
I remember watching American programs years ago and not understanding how kids seemed to be using their parents credit cards. Since pin numbers came in, I'd always assumed that the US had had that first and that was how it worked.