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Old 05-03-2021, 17:55   #31
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Re: Contactless cards and the future of cash

Crooks using card reading equipment can swipe money as you walk
They can also steal information that they can then use to steal your identity
It even possible when contactless cards were in bags and jacket pockets
The equipment needed is available for as little as £30 online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-street.html

It's old news, but with stories like this you can see why people are against the £100 limit or they are disabling the chip altogether.
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Re: Contactless cards and the future of cash

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The only time I use cash these days is to get the daily paper.

What does annoy me is that now and then the contactless is declined and I have to put in the card and the PIN meaning I have to touch the keys that someone else has just touched.

I know it's added security but still annoying.
I carry a small bottle of 70% antibacterial hand gel and use it regularly on the few occasions I touch anything outside

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Puts on Tin foil hat.......

It's all about control, the state and big finance wants to know exactly how much money you have and where, how you spend it and where.

They want to close banks and cash machines and go completely digital, dis-advantaging anyone that doesn't

Takes tin foil hat off.........
They pretty much know how much you have and where it is anyway unless you fiddle the dole or work cash in hand. Most everything else is recorded somewhere anyway
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Old 05-03-2021, 18:00   #33
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Re: Contactless cards and the future of cash

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Given that Faraday cage wallets are available so you can control when the card is accessible.
I have one of those, had it for a few years now was only a few quid.
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Re: Contactless cards and the future of cash

I was waiting for the bus yesterday, and as soon as it appeared in the distance, I suddenly realised I'd forgotten my bus pass! Luckily, I had my contactless card and used that to pay the fare.
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Re: Contactless cards and the future of cash

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I was waiting for the bus yesterday, and as soon as it appeared in the distance, I suddenly realised I'd forgotten my bus pass! Luckily, I had my contactless card and used that to pay the fare.
I love a story with a happy ending

Contactless is very convenient, not sure about £100. You should be able to opt out if you're not happy with that amount or set your own limit.
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Old 05-03-2021, 19:20   #36
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Thats enough of the your nonsense.

I'm also curious why anyone would purposely disable contactless.
I don't disagree but there is some scaremongering around readers taking contactless payments from passers by or from jackets at or near the till in a bar.

It does remind me of the once I genuinely thought I'd been scammed. £27.40, couldn't work out why.

The next day in work described my outrage to a colleague as we had been standing at the bar. This is a joke... etc. etc. My colleague replies

"Two Staropramen and 20 quid cashback?"

Suddenly it all made sense. I do more often use phone payments but not out of an inherent distrust of contactless - just I have my phone on me more often than my wallet. Like a true Scotsman.
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I don't disagree but there is some scaremongering around readers taking contactless payments from passers by or from jackets at or near the till in a bar.

It does remind me of the once I genuinely thought I'd been scammed. £27.40, couldn't work out why.

The next day in work described my outrage to a colleague as we had been standing at the bar. This is a joke... etc. etc. My colleague replies

"Two Staropramen and 20 quid cashback?"

Suddenly it all made sense. I do more often use phone payments but not out of an inherent distrust of contactless - just I have my phone on me more often than my wallet. Like a true Scotsman.

Had to look that up, never heard of that beer before.
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Had to look that up, never heard of that beer before.
It's fantastic if you can get a good draught pint of it. The Griffin in Glasgow was my haunt then although bizarrely they stopped doing it in favour of Moretti.
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Old 05-03-2021, 19:48   #39
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Crooks using card reading equipment can swipe money as you walk
They can also steal information that they can then use to steal your identity
It even possible when contactless cards were in bags and jacket pockets
The equipment needed is available for as little as £30 online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-street.html

It's old news, but with stories like this you can see why people are against the £100 limit or they are disabling the chip altogether.
I have notifications on my bank and credit card (x2) accounts - if a transaction happens, I get a text notification.

I’d know immediately if someone was using one of my cards.
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It's fantastic if you can get a good draught pint of it. The Griffin in Glasgow was my haunt then although bizarrely they stopped doing it in favour of Moretti.
Been in that pub, was a few years ago now, I think I've saved a small fortune by not being able to get out for a few beers.
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Been in that pub, was a few years ago now, I think I've saved a small fortune by not being able to get out for a few beers.
yea but you're going to make up for it
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Given that Faraday cage wallets are available so you can control when the card is accessible.
If you get one, test it to make sure it works. Mrs P bought a Faraday pouch to keep the key for her new car. It was totally useless.

She now keeps the key in an old toffee tin, which works perfectly.
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I have notifications on my bank and credit card (x2) accounts - if a transaction happens, I get a text notification.

I’d know immediately if someone was using one of my cards.
Yes - I get mobile notifications of money in/out on all my bank accounts - current and savings.
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Thanks for that - I’ll make sure to look out for anyone pressing a contactless payment terminal against my crotch* when I’m out...

*I keep my wallet in my front trouser pocket
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