Starting in February 2013, MasterCard will start migrating Puerto Rico consumers to using credit cards with chips instead of magnetic strips to reduce fraud and identify theft.
Last weekend, a woman was at home in Orlando, when she got a call from her bank warning her of a potentially fraudulent transaction involving her debit card. Someone had lifted the card number to go on a $150 shopping spree at a mega-retailer in Canóvanas, miles from where she was in Florida.