Contactless Credit Card from Cap One

mrpsmith

sillygoose wrote: »

I wonder how long before some device appears on ebay that can zap the contactless chip? hope so!

There already is. Just drill a 2mm hole through the contactless 'chip'

reclusive46

mrpsmith wrote: »

There already is. Just drill a 2mm hole through the contactless 'chip'

Hmm...A merchant isn't going to find that card suspicious at all. Especially if you travel to a non-chip and pin country, where merchants are very on the ball with preventing fraud.

gusgorman

reclusive46 wrote: »

Hmm...A merchant isn't going to find that card suspicious at all. Especially if you travel to a non-chip and pin country, where merchants are very on the ball with preventing fraud.

If you explain to them why you did it they will understand then won't they

Anyway, in the UK contactless is built into the same chip as "chip and pin" so you can't really drill through that. However, what you can do is break the contactless antenna. If you search the internet you will find examples of x-rays of contactless cards that show you where the antenna is.

eg http://imageshack.us/a/img89/4470/cardswb.jpg

other info here http://linuxcentre.net/disabling-contactless-cards

moocowone

I'm a huge fan of contactless and use it everywhere I can. The sooner we all stop using cash, the better!

opinions4u

reclusive46 wrote: »

Especially if you travel to a non-chip and pin country, where merchants are very on the ball with preventing fraud.

Really? I'm yet to see any care applied by an overseas trader accepting a credit card.

Eonel

There is lot of hype in the media over Contactless payment issues.

There is also no method of carrying/making payment that is risk free and nothing that any of us could tell GusGorman that will change his mind

I have had no problems with Contactless & use it wherever I can.

reclusive46

opinions4u wrote: »

Really? I'm yet to see any care applied by an overseas trader accepting a credit card.

Over the last year, I've had my card checked over and been asked for ID on several occasions around the world, even on smaller purchases. Maybe I just look suspicious :P

You've also go to remember in same Asian countries now, the liability shift has taken place but a lot of places still don't have EMV enabled machines.

[Deleted User]

Simon7685 wrote: »

After all the bad press recently regarding contactless, can you opt out of it

But do you actually believe all this "bad press"? Or are you just reading the Daily Mail?

If you "opted out" of everything given a "bad press", you'd ban baby food, sausages, black people, shaving, flip flops, cities, false nails, WiFi, dogs, tall people, grapefruits, oral sex, fibre, and bread... but no sane people are calling for the outlawing of city-dwelling tall black people from wearing flip flops and false nails while giving oral sex to sausages.

IMO, the "bad press" has just come from z-list journalists desperately scrabbling to write the "next big scoop" on something they can whip the public into a frenzy over.

Maestro.

Contactless must be the way things are going, because my bank sent me a letter saying they'd soon be changing people's debit cards over to contactless - and I'm talking about Clydesdale, the bank that's still stuck in the 1970s!

reclusive46

Maestro. wrote: »

Contactless must be the way things are going, because my bank sent me a letter saying they'd soon be changing people's debit cards over to contactless - and I'm talking about Clydesdale, the bank that's still stuck in the 1970s!

I'm pretty sure they don't have a choice. MasterCard is mandating that all newly issued Debit MasterCard be contactless in the UK from end of this year. Not a bad thing though as MasterCard is also pushing online contactless for those who don't have a good enough credit to normally get a contactless card. So everyone can have a contactless card.