Easter Sunday falls on March 27th 2016 and the long weekend break means that families have a chance to get together to celebrate and enjoy some well earned relaxation time. It is also a religious holiday for many culminating in a special Easter Sunday service marking the resurrection of Jesus.
Whatever your faith, the weekend is bound to provide extra crowds and gatherings of people which is unfortunately the ideal target for thieves who are using increasingly deceptive methods to steal credit card details from oblivious passer-byes. The until now little known practice known as RFID theft is becoming increasingly common as it allows thieves to steal your credit card details without you ever knowing you have become a victim.
RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification and is the technology that credit card companies employ to allow you to pay for small goods through the ‘contactless’ payment system where you no longer need to put your card in a reader and enter a PIN. The technology used means that a microchip in your credit card is constantly emitting a signal out to the world so that when a shop where you make a contactless payment has a scanning device it can read your details and debit your card without any physical contact being made.
The problem arises that the scanning technology used can be copied by thieves and as long as they are in close proximity to the card holder, it is just as easy for them to steal your information as it would be when you offered to pay in the shop.
Encryption of details does not help in this case as the thieves simply copy the encrypted scanned information onto a new magnetic strip and they have a card that holds all the same information as the original. Crowds and gatherings during holiday periods are the ideal place for thieves to target as they are then able to anonymously steal dozens of card details whist melting seamlessly into the crowd.
Although the scale of this problem is growing ever larger, the solution for credit card users who possess cards that contain the RFID chip is relatively simple. To block the signal from your credit cards whilst you are carrying them requires you to place the cards with what is known as rfid blocking card. This consists of a aluminum foil that disrupts the signal that your cards make and make it unreadable to the prying scanners of thieves who may be lurking nearby.
RFID Protection: The Secret to Keeping Your Data Safe!
Identity Theft is at All Time High! Unless properly shielded, your card-based data is readily available when any active reader is in range!
This RFID Blocking Card Protects Your Smart Cards from unwanted capture of data from contactless cards issued by banks, governments and other institutions such as:
* Credit or Debit (Per esempio: MC PayPass, VISA PayWave, AMEX expresspay, INTERAC Flash, and so on.)
* Enhanced driver’s license, Hunting and fishing license
* Accesso / security control, Employee / School ID
* Health insurance, Medical ID
* Regalo, Iscrizione, biblioteca
* Transit / Park pass
Click below to find the RFID Blocking Card to keeping your data safe:
http://www.rfidhy.com/rfid/rfid-inlay/rfid-blocking-card/
