Debit Card Cloning and the Cashless Society

I
read with much amusement the article “Thieves Clone Debit
Cards”, published Thursday March 11, 2010, The Thursday Star  which
reports a supposedly new phenomenon of Debit Card cloning.



This
reminded me of a similar report earlier this year on Wednesday January 6th 2010,
when the Bank of Nova Scotia announced on radio that persons were soliciting
the Card numbers and PIN (Personal