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Old Mar 28, 2019 | 12:07 am
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Originally Posted by EmailKid
In Canada, where contactless is actually fairly common, scammers have apparently tried to steal CC info by being in proximity of users.

Wallets that block wireless signal can be used to avoid that. Not sure if they are for sale in US.
And that information is largely useless to those scammers with EMV Contactless technology that gives each transaction a unique key just like a physical chip card since you can't just recreate the card and do swipes anymore like in the old days. It was a problem 15 years ago but technology has since gotten ahead of that making Contactless the fastest, most secure, global standard for credit card payments.
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