My updated credit card is due in Feb. I will not accept a card with an RIFD chip unless it has a proven means of not allowing something like this to happen. Soon we'll need microchips in our ears for these things, just like our dogs! :-) We live in a close-to-crazy world these days.

Actually, that is not necessarily true around here. There is such a huge problem with forged bank notes that many stores won't take anything larger than a $20 bill, and even those are checked individually.

Sadly, the crooks have us coming and going.

Found the info: Show is/was "Track Me if you can". Expert is Aton Edwards. He is 'an expert in the fields of self-reliance, emergency preparedness, and sustainable living. He is the current Executive Director of the International Preparedness Network' (info from wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aton_Edwards)

well what do you know? I guess my friend was right after all.

wasn't there also a mention that they thought it was a selling tactic for those covers ??

the gas station pumps have a clear button on them,be sure and push the clear button when you are done, otherwise your cc number can still be on there. tmw

If your credit card has an RFID chip in it (means you can scan the card rather than sliding it through a reader), just call your credit card company and request that they provide you with a card without the RFID chip. If they want your business, they will send you a new card.

The sites shown said they will put them into clothing very soon, if they already haven't.
Now folks are going to think I'm nuts, taking a brand new pair of jeans into the back yard and pounding them savagely all over with a big hammer!!!

My brother has a security firm, I'm going to have to ask him what to use to block this, perhaps good old fashioned tin foil will do it.

A couple of yrs ago we went away for the week-end and when we got home i had 3 messages on phone someone was using a card we haven't used in a year they had a great time they went to alanta at the hilton used room sevice first tried to charge $150. at pizza hut and at gas station but gas would not let them because they didn't have the card we did not have to pay back and of the money. never did figure out how they got the number

I beg to disagree, every time we travel we stay for FREE in a Hampton Inn, all with points I get from my credit card. Love that free breakfast too!!

Like anything else there is good and bad in it - if you have a card with an annual fee, and you don't pay on time every month, they are socking it to you. But you can turn it around and make it work in your favor.