New Plan B

[Hobosapien]

Top tip to avoid contactless fraud: Keep multiple expired cards in your wallet so the device doesn't know which one to automatically charge.

Keeping a kit kat in your pocket in front of the wallet also used to work, until they got rid of the foil wrapper. Used to be known as the two finger salute unless you were a four fingerer.

[FatLazyContractor]

NLYUK and AndyW's mum have got RFID readers installed down under.

Charge per stoke, I heard

[WTFH]

It's possibly to switch banks to one that doesn't do contactless.

[Troll]

Anyone tried Disabling Contactless Payment on Debit Cards ?

[Troll]

Sorry to POYF... RFID Card Wallet

Bugger...

[northernladuk]

Ahhh Faraday shield's. I used love those. The way it made your hair stand up and could give your friends shocks.. Lots of jolly japes...

But anyway...

I thought I'd seen one of these on both Kickstarter and another on Indiegogo alone... Gonna be knee deep in offerings soon.

[VectraMan]

That said NFC & crap like Apple Pay baffle me even more.

For a while I kept noticing that my phone would make a strange noise when I took it out my pocket and put it on the table when I got home. Eventually I realised it was because of my habit of putting the phone down on top of my wallet and it was talking to my credit cards via NFC, but not doing anything other than making a bonk noise.

What's the point of that then?

[NickFitz]

I bought a new leather wallet from M&S last year. I didn't even notice until I got it home that it has RFID shielding. I reckon the market's saturated by now

[clearedforlanding]

I have previously asked my bank for non contactless cards - but seems they don't do them

HSBC Premier will issue these if you ask them, for £ & $ cards. For some strange reason they only issue € cards as Amex Platinum charge cards, which noone accepts anyway, but just to be double sure they are not contactless.

[SimonMac]

Create a wallet with built in Faraday shield




I have previously asked my bank for non contactless cards - but seems they don't do them

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourc...=rfid%20wallet

[clearedforlanding]

Create a wallet with built in Faraday shield




I have previously asked my bank for non contactless cards - but seems they don't do them

The whole proximity bank card thing baffles me. Why the hell did we go to the effort of Chip & PIN after years of ignoring the French with their Carte Bleu, then overlook the fact that Proton was a complete failure in Belgium due to fraud.

At least in the UK there appear to be floor limits. I had €618 put through a contactless terminal by my dentist on Wednesday.

That said NFC & crap like Apple Pay baffle me even more. I got stuck at Marks & Sparks at T5 behind a queue of people firing up iPhones and waving them around trying to pay for a sandwich.

[OnceStonedRose]

"CLARIFICATION: The picture in Paul Jarvis' post appears to have originally come from the Russian media. He has now deleted his Facebook post."

Flipping scare-mongering clowns everywhere....

[Chuck]

Create a wallet with built in Faraday shield




I have previously asked my bank for non contactless cards - but seems they don't do them

Sorry to POYF... RFID Card Wallet

[Troll]

Create a wallet with built in Faraday shield

A post has gone viral, after a man, Paul Jarvis, saw a thief scamming people out of their money in a tech-savvy manner.

He was putting through payments of less than £30 in a wireless card reader and touching it on wallets of unsuspecting people.

I have previously asked my bank for non contactless cards - but seems they don't do them