The Risk of “Double Swiping”

“Double Swiping” is an act to describe the second swipe of a payment card at an Electronic Cash Register (ECR) or more commonly known as Point of Sales (POS) system, after the first swipe / insert made by merchant to obtain initial authorization from the payment card issuer. Double swiping captures sensitive personal data from the card and expose cardholders to fraud risk like unauthorized transactions.

All retail merchants in Malaysia are prohibited by the Card Association (e.g. Visa, MasterCard) and Bank Negara Malaysia from capturing and storing sensitive payment card data / cardholder data encoded on the magnetic stripes of customers’ payment cards i.e. credit, debit or charge card.

Therefore, if you suspect any merchants to be performing “Double Swiping”, you may report the matter to our bank via email at centre.custcare@rhbgroup.com
Anyone experience this before,  card got swiped twice?