The test card, marketed by Tetra Scene of Crime in Billericay, contains a chemical which reacts to Ketamine and GHB, which police say are the most commonly used drugs.
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They would test the card by charging a small amount at a gas station.
Buying a diamond ring soon after buying petrol results in an even higher risk score: thieves often test a card's validity with a small purchase before buying something much bigger.
Ramzam says that identity thieves frequently test credit card information by moving small sums of money, and banks have responded by scanning transactions records looking for unusual recipients of what look like test transactions.
Morgan Chase told The Wall Street Journal that its Chase retail unit had decided to drop its test of debit-card fees.
You may want to test-drive a card before leaving for college, so you can learn how it works with your parents nearby to help.
Drivers register for the test using a smart card and have to negotiate their way around a paved driving track fitted with electronic sensors.
On the first day of school earlier this month, Mr. Bloomberg announced a new text-messaging system that allows parents to receive reminders about things such as school-lunch menus, test and report-card dates, as well as applications for free and reduced-price lunch.
This is the most common design, but we still test some applications that encrypt the card number on the mobile device.
In another demonstration, the Belkin router and network card were put to the test directly against Netgear 's (nasdaq: NTGR - news - people ) 802.11g products.
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"I'm obviously surprised to get a yellow card at the start of the Test match because it does put us on the back foot, " said Springboks captain John Smit.
Even if the charity test is performed on just a small fraction of stolen card numbers, the contributions could add up.
Not many people enjoy putting on those ridiculous contraptions designed to test your eyesight while straining to read a distant sight card and making up the last few lines.
Just hours after our review round-up of the new GeForce GTX 680 graphics card yesterday, a Dutch site has managed to test multiple cards in different (but invariably exorbitant) SLI modes.
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When pushed, this newfangled card did manage to best every other rival on the test bench, but not by a wide margin.
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It decided not to test a plan in which customers who were about to make a debit-card purchase but didn't have enough in their account would have gotten an alert giving them the option of buying overdraft protection.
However, it said that only a small group of people are being test-marketed in what it describes as a 'price trial' for the card.
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In another Tokyo clinic devoted to QRS exams, Dr. Motonobu Nakamura demonstrated the process, taking readings on a range of ailments and harmful substances from the emanations off a business card placed on top of the QRS machine and found that the test subject was free of harm.
One test of this to-be-hoped-for moderation will be his handling of the issue of solely using card check for union-organizing.
One test of this to-be-hoped-for moderation will be his handling of the issue of solely using card check for union organizing.
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