With tapping I could see how that is more secure but if they’re still providing the card details versus the secure token or something well… maybe it’s not?
Unless there’s a hidden magnetic reader in the chip-reading portion of the terminal, in which case the scammers could read like 1/3 of the magstripe data? Which doesn’t seem that useful tbh.
At least around where I am (Ohio, USA), at gas pumps and ATMs: Inserting the card for contact EMV typically means inserting the whole card.
In doing so, entire card is pushed all the way into the same slot that is also used for reading the magstripe, and to the same depth that is used for magstripe transactions.
This quality leaves the door open for magstripe skimming.
(It may be a stupid way of building things, but things exist in the real world that are built this way anyhow. Whether the information on the mag stripe still has any utility for a would-be thief in 2026 is a different matter.)
All three modern technologies ("original" Chip & PIN, wireless or a phone) are basically the EMV protocol, which is a fairly crap protocol which wasn't reviewed by experts before deployment - but is at least designed by people who have heard about cryptographic security and wanted to do that.
The original credit cards are just numbers written on a card. Clerk sees your number, memorizes it, now they can make arbitrary transactions indistinguishable from yours. Basically no security.
Magnetic stripe cards look more sophisticated but the stripe is basically the same numbers again but in a way humans cannot read. "Cloning" is just a matter of a machine copying those numbers onto another card's magnetic stripe. There's no real security improvement, though it is more convenient for the bank...
EMV ("Chip and PIN") is rather more complicated and could in principle be entirely secure - they could make it implausibly expensive to "clone" an EMV card, and require that you actually know your PIN for every transaction, so then crooks would need to learn your PIN and have the actual card, and that's a high bar.
In practice we didn't do much of that because it would be inconvenient, and so there are technical deficiencies, but realistically that XKCD "wrench" thing applies. Difficult technological attacks rarely happen, crooks threaten to stab you if you don't co-operate or they break into your home and steal your stuff, they do not come up with breakthrough cryptanalytic attacks on protocols. Mostly.