Technology & Online

RFID blockers

Technology & Online

Posted by: why?

15th Sep 2016 10:08pm

Protection for pay wave credit cards may not be as necessary as the makers would have us believe. Information is freely available on the net that suggests if scammers do scam your card details, chances are they won't be able to use them. Most pay wave cards have a dynamic CVV number that changes each time you use the card, making it virtually impossible to reuse the scammed details to any effect.
We should always check manufacturers' claims, no matter what, as the scam may just be that you have been sucked in to buying a product.


Comments 3

PGS
  • 23rd May 2017 04:19pm

Wonder if you will change your mind when your card is hit.

This is a big problem globally. In the UK the banks still give the choice a normal or contactless card.
The Victorian police a few months back started requesting the banks here do the same thing to help stop the thefts.

There are a few places selling the card sleeves and wallets in Australia. Kogan has some, House Bound Trading has some. The sleeves are pretty basic, if you can find the fully lined leather wallets, they are quite nice.

Wife had her card done... the time & trouble to cancel the card & arrange other payments for the ones to come off the card... not fun.

HJW
  • 16th Oct 2016 10:35am

Thank you for the information - I had no idea of this. Perhaps banks would make this info more available/more accessible as a matter of routine.

Goulah
  • 26th Sep 2016 07:02pm

I am not au fait with technology and get awfully confused by what is out there. One expert says "this should be done" and another "that should be done". Being of a somewhat cynical disposition, I tend to not believe most things nowadays and work on the basis that most things are advertising and not necessities.

Julie

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