More customers say 'tap-to-pay' charged their credit card through bags, pockets

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[davidc-l]

I can’t get the darn thing to read my card or phone when they’re literally touching, but these folks had their cards read from FEET away?!

[MaggieLawlor]

I bought an RFID blocking card wallet years ago when there were incidents of thieves using personal scanners in crowds at vents to steal personal info. The wallets are cheap, do not damage cards and prevent such theft.

[milsurprifleguy]

My wife was at a bakery and had cash to pay, when the cashier told my wife the bill had been paid by a charge card that was in her purse . People think, oh that can’t or won’t happen to me, till it does happen

[Inventors_Toolbox]

My concern is not with the occasional range glitch. But with a scammer carrying a reader in a crowded area like a subway, concert, sport event, etc and getting close enough to charge cards in peoples wallets or pockets. It could be weeks if ever that people notice the changes and then, especially if its not large, think they may have legitimately charged something they forget that day.

[lightning]

I no longer purchase at Starbucks, but years ago they were and apparently still are double charging people. It happened to me so much I finally asked the credit card people if they noticed this pattern before. They said yes it happens all the time and we get calls all the time. Starbucks has made untold millions doing this to customers and that was before rf was in the cards.

[letty]

I don't know why, but I never trusted the tap to pay feature.

[kingcane]

We have to keep cash as an option no matter what new futuristic payment techniques they create

[Suds]

Welcome to the new electronic pick pocket world.

[clifftanch]

Sounds like someone needs to be sued to get the message.

[zackryder]

Most systems need your card to be extremely close before it even knows it’s there and starts to read it so this is a really odd phenomenon

[dave]

Exactly why you ask for receipts for purchases AND you check against your monthly statement as tedious as that is. I've caught a number of "charge mistakes" over the years that prove folks are trying to rip me off. New card, new numbers, solves the issue. + a RFID blocking card wallet as mentioned below !

[bigcahuna]

3:17 - I would never recommend leaving your wallet in your car while you're in the store. Car theft is skyrocketing these days, especially if you live in the Bay area

[rondab]

Very interesting I just heard of this yesterday and today it happened to me twice. I visited a convenience store this morning at 9:30am.... and noticed just now that my debit card was charged twice for the same amount. The first transaction I hadn't even put the card in the machine and I was charged (which i didnt realize) then I inserted the card, I was charged again. At 3pm today, I was at a hair store all items were rung up... I started to unzip my purse and when I looked at the machine it said APPROVED. I said to the worker how is this approved when you see that I haven't even taking my debit card out of my wallet yet 😮. The worker was in complete shock as well as I. The bank told me they are unable to remove that contactless feature and could not send me a new debit card without it. This is very scary!

[rochellegainous]

This is going to be a big problem. They need to straighten out this mess they stealing stealing stealing stealing.

[gretaeberhardt]

I worked in retail and saw numerous transactions already paid for while the customer is putting in the card they intended to pay with. I only saw it when people put down their wallet next to the reader, but, apparently it’s way worse. Go technology!

[bryanhall]

Something isn't adding up here. RFID doesn't have the ability to read from far distances.
Over that, why was this ONLY seniors?

[teresaoconnell]

I am a cashier. First I ring up your items. Then enter the amount of the purchase in the credit card terminal. Then the customer presents the card. IF the machine displays a " multiple cards detected". I tell them to hold the wallet behind your back and use your card. This would be a nightmare if the customers were wrongly charged. I would have to give them the money back.

[Sundayjean]

😮 illegal! Do we need to do a class action lawsuits to get this theft to stop!
This could absolutely ruin someone.

[froglady]

For me to have to buy a special wallet or purse to prevent this from happening is like a law being passed that says I have to wear a bulletproof vest just in case someone decides to start shooting so they won’t kill me. The victims, including the stores who have these machines should file suits against the companies that make the machines. The credit card companies should give an option to people to get cards you have to swipe instead of the one ones that can be read from your purse or you back pocket. Credit card and credit card data theft was bad enough before. Technology is not our friend in this case.

[simonialei]

I guess nothing beats good ol' hard cold cash.