RFID – VENQUE

Can someone steal your credit card info from your pocket?

It is reported that over 1 million travellers experienced credit card fraud each year, 45% of the victims claimed they never used their cards at their destination, yet they were still stolen.

Can someone steal your credit card info from your pocket? Yes, if you have a contactless card with an RFID chip, the data can be read from it.

Contactless payment cards have radio frequency identification tags in them which can be read from a distance by using a scanner. The same RFID technology ensures the operation of building access cards and transport cards. Therefore, data on all types of contactless cards are not secure.

How did it happen?

Contactless payment cards have radio frequency identification tags in them which can be read from a distance by using a scanner. The same RFID technology ensures the operation of building access cards and transport cards. Therefore, data on all types of contactless cards are not secure.

A number of publications, such as NBC New York and The Sun, have conducted experiments showing that contactless card information can be stolen at close range. To do this, experts simply held a reader disguised as an iPad to the victim’s pocket, wallet, or bag. Now, scammers don’t even need to buy any devices to do this. Google Play has apps that can be used for the same purpose.

If you are in a public place where a lot of people have gathered, the risk of such fraud increases significantly.

What are we doing to prevent this?

RFID BLOCKING VAULT POCKET

Fortunately, radio waves are relatively easy to interrupt and block, and that's how our RFID-blocking pocket works. They encase your credit cards in a material that interferes with radio waves. The pocket is properly constructed as a Faraday cage, it will block all electromagnetic fields and prevent communication between your cards and RFID scanners. You can safely place your wallet, credit cards, passports in the pocket.

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