Contactless Card Fraud

I knew this would happen

Police forces warn over contactless fraud - AOL Money UK

Most blokes keep their wallet in their back pocket, so it's an easy target, if you got a card reader

 

My contactless card hardly ever works even if I run it past the reader loads of times.

Thanks for the warning though. I'll ask my bank if they can disable it.

 

Thats when the reader debits the next nearest card to yours Not coming shopping with you anymore Dave

There was a bloke I used to work with that pee'd me off proper once. I bided my time for revenge, then contactlessly wiped his cards by swiping a supermagnet over his back pocket the day we broke up for xmas

He couldn't get any money out till the banks re opened

 

Never seen a "card defender", I assume it's a lead lined box?

Things really are getting stupid these days the more technology moves on the more problems it creates.
I dont really understand this contactless idea anyway.
How many seconds does it take to stick your card in and put in four numbers.
Most of the time is taken up by the useless card reader sorting itself out and asking for the pin.

Sort out the card readers, speed up their reading of the card and contactless would be a thing of the past.

 

Have got rid of my contactless card.

A) it takes too long to come out of the bank, 5-7 days for some things!
b) I lose my cards a lot!

 

Contactless never appealed to me in the first instance! Mind you, even supermarket transactions are becoming more and more "contactless" too with self service, scan as you go ...

... now, if the NHS could harness such technology, you could arrive at the door, step on the conveyor belt, swipe your "personal details" (ID card) and select your symptoms. Then, the conveyor belt could stop you off at the right machine (x-ray, MIR scanner etc), a quick flip and there you'd be, on your back having your insides read, then a quick flip off that bed and your back on the conveyor belt ... meanwhile, another computer reads your x-ray/scan and by the time the conveyor belt had flipped you out at the café for a quick flick of the coffee machine and a microwaved burger, the diagnosis is made. Back on the conveyor belt for either pharmacy, surgery, bed rest or booted out for malingering Save a small fortune a contactless NHS

 

Walmart has check your own registers. I never use them. If I have to check my own purchases, why don't I get a discount for saving them the labor costs? Besides, I see it as costing somebody a job, so I will stand in line to check out with a live person at the register.

 

also family members using them with out the card horder permission

also key fobs, make sure you have locked your car as there is some people out there with blockers that stops the car from locking then someone come a steals things from inside, but your insurance won't pay out because you haven't lock your car, so don't pess the button when you are 10-20 feet away you may not have locked it do it by your car

 

Let's hope that crazy nut in government that's in charge of the NHS isn't reading this.

Macdonalds will have to close down because all their staff will leave to become medical technicians, and all the real medics will have to go on the dole.

Still, it could put a swift end to the population boom.

 

At leased you don't pick up any bugs from the buttons from the person before you that has been picking he's/her _ _ _

 

I've used hole in the wall machines for years and never had a problem.
I've only used contactless when some foreign bloke behind the counter at a filling station decided to take my card from me and do it for me.
I was very wary of that transaction, but it turned out ok.

 

Why? Because it was a filling station? Because it was a bloke?
Never fear: "M" is here! Hand it to me and I'll go and do it for you in Sainsbury's

 

I find contactless very useful , when paying for a small basket of items at the local shop , or a round of drinks at the pub if I am a bit short of the folding stuff. The limit on a contactless transaction is £30. But if someone lifted my card how many £30 could they spend ?

 

No because he grabbed my card when I was trying to put it in the slot, gabbling something or other, then he waved it over the machine not once but twice .

Couldn't understand a word he said, so that didn't help the situation.

As I left the building he followed me with a piece of paper, tearing it up and he went round the back of the building?????

By that time I was getting in my car.