Some French neobank. (Sumeria, used to be Lydia) just sent me a VISA card. It has raised lettering. So...
...if you take the card
...and you throw the paper out
...anyone can read the 16-digit credit card number, expiration date, first name and last name of the cardholder 🥲
@fasterthanlime Mail tends to get stacked in storage and sorting, doesn't it? So if you analyzed the surface topography of other pieces of mail, you could probably recover someone's CC info without even needing to go digging around in their trash.
Anyway, I'll second owning a shredder. I mostly use mine for invoices with my phone number on them, but there's always voided checks and the occasional very sensitive piece of PII that got printed for no good reason.
@fasterthanlime wait, I thought all credit cards have raised lettering, did I get bamboozled or do banks usually take precautions to, you know, not have the letters visible on the paper?
@overanalytcl I haven’t noticed that problem on other cards. I think the base Revolut card doesn’t actually have raised lettering. The other ones probably have plastic around them, or something else that doesn’t mark as easily. This one straight up acted as a printing press.