UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors

leathered writes "The BBC reports that some customers of UK retailer Marks and Spencer have reported that the store's contactless payment terminals have debited their cards despite being in their bags or pockets, sometimes paying twice when they have used another payment method. The cards are supposed to work only when the card comes within 4cm of the terminal. Customers of fast-food chain Pret a Manger have been reporting similar problems, and in both cases cited the customers weren't even aware they had been issued with NFC-enabled cards by their bank."

Comments

Tap And Go Bankrupt

[Anonymous Coward]

Quick, buy stock in companies selling RF-blocking wallets and bags

And don't forget fashion - my electric-blue aluminium wallet pairs nicely with my neon-green tinfoil hat!

in Soviet Russia

[FudRucker]

retail stores shoplift YOU!

Re:Why

[JustOK]

I thought in the UK chips were called crisps.