On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:06:36 +0100, chris French wrote:

In message , JTM writes
In article ,
chris French wrote:
I have used a BNP Paribas (Belgium) card reader successfully to read
my Nationwide card and login to Nationwide. It also works the other
way around for *some* but not all transactions. The BNP Paribas card
reader simply has more options than the Nationwide one,
I don't think there are any different security algorithms in it.

As an experiment I tried to use my Nationwide reader with my smile
card on my smile accounht (or vice versa, can't remember). It's didn't
work - it would produce codes,but they were rejected by the website.

When I'd left my reader in France I popped into the N/wide brance to do
a transfer and asked to use a reader to do it. The assistant gave me a
new one and said that "once a reader has been used with a card, it can
only be used by *that* card. Might just have been bull though.

Hmm, I think it might be.

Doesn't apply to the Smile readers, as we have a joint acct, and so use
either of our Debit cards

Doesn't apply to the NatWest ones. SWTNFI sometimes borrows my reader, as
she occasionally loses hers.

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