Tin foil to block credit card scanners?
#21
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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.
#22
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Originally Posted by granma1
My DH says to pay cash. It is a lot Less trouble. Credit cards don't make things faster or easier. They just create more problems
Sadly, the crooks have us coming and going.
#23
Originally Posted by redkimba
EDIT - If I find out who the guy is and/or what the show is, I will update. I do remember the guy runs a security company and/or survivalist school.
#24
Originally Posted by redkimba
I watched a program on Discovery channel where the security guy did an experiment to get off the grid as one identity and go back on the grid as another person. He used aluminum foil in his wallet so scanners could not pick up his card info.
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
Originally Posted by AlwaysQuilting
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I saw this on the news - don't remember which one - but it was only a few days ago - of course, the guy is also selling an "anit-theft device" to cover your cards as a deterrent.
My thought was - "oh, great - now another 'how-to" steal"
My thought was - "oh, great - now another 'how-to" steal"
#27
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.
#28
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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.
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.
#29
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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
#30
Originally Posted by granma1
My DH says to pay cash. It is a lot Less trouble. Credit cards don't make things faster or easier. They just create more problems
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.
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