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This is all the fault of the american banks who refuse to put the EMV chip on their cards. I live in Europe and my card has a chip. Using magnet stripe will fail at every terminal which is equipped with a chip reader as the use of the chip is mandatory when possible.
Probably this is also the reason why the credit card data is abused in the states because you terminals don't have the chip reader and therefore will accept any cloned card, even copies of european cards which actually have a Chip.
My Credit Card Was Cloned (Again)
It never fails. Each time I head to Europe, or just get back, one of my credit cards is cloned. It doesn't matter as to the flavor (Visa, Amex, MasterCard) they've all been cloned or some payment processor somewhere has had their data compromised, with the end result being a new card being issue...
The biggest bug in the code is that you insert to and subject into the mail header without any filtering. This is a source for many spam abuses, when spammers manage to control e.g. the subject and insert a newline into it, thus allowing them to insert own header lines and change the body.
So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
I have what I would charitably describe as a hate-hate relationship with email. I desperately try to avoid sending email, not just for myself, but also in the code I write. Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can't kill it. Email is the one method o...
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