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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."
If I had mod points, you would get them... I really genuinely don't get why no one saw this coming.
howdy y'all,
is tin foil available any more? i looked the other day and only found aluminum foil. i have an old roll of tin foil stashed in the back of one of my closets that i got from my mom when i 1st went to college. i aint seen any _tin_ foil in decades ...
take care,
lee
Hate those stupid gas pumps. Useless if your card is from outside the US.
Actually there is a way to use this even if your card is from outside the US. For example I have cards from Canada and the convention is to use the numbers from your postal code and add 00 at the end. It works well. If yours is from another country google around, they might have a convention on how to get the "ZIP" code you're supposed to use.
Some POS systems are not integrated with the card payment terminal. You click "visa" for instance, and the POS system assumes a valid card payment has been made. The payment is then made in a seperate terminal which issues a receipt for the payment, which should be kept with the purchase receipt.