How To Protect Your Contactless Credit/Debit Cards | RFID Protection – 9 Tips

The Clinic discusses credit card security predominantly on how we can protect ourselves from the security threats around contactless cards.

Many of us who own cards would be aware of a word Skimming… Skimming was a scam that common many years ago where rogues were able to clone our credit cards by tricking people to put their credit cards in compromised ATM machines or simply picking up a stolen or misplaced credit card and making a copy…

As we may know… The black magnetic strip on credit cards contain our personal information which can be cloned if it falls into the wrong hands… Chip and Pin was introduced to fight this (and it did to a large extent)…

The Clinic is aware of another scam that is gathering some momentum… Typically as you may know contactless debit/credit cards contain an RFID chip that contains our card information. We are able to place these cards against a terminal in shops to complete transactions that are not more than £30…

That’s all good but the Clinic is aware that there are rogues who are able to simply walk pass you with machines or apps on mobile phones. These devices are able to pick up the radio frequency from these cards and simply read the personal information and successfully withdraw money from the contactless card…
It happens mostly in crowded areas like Stadia, Markets, Shopping Malls, Airports, Train Stations… Any place where bumping to each other is not uncommon.

The clinic must highlight that incidents of this type of scams are very rare indeed… But we know they are happening and people are simply not reporting it (often enough) because the amounts being taken out of the account is no more than £30 per transaction…

The Clinic is aware that many families are traveling on holidays very soon and wants us all to be prudent and safe…


Important links

RFID - Radio Frequency Identification

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