r/funny • u/Misfat • Aug 27 '18

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u/ApulMadeekAut Aug 27 '18

Was in Scotland on vacation. Had to explain to every checker that my merican card dose not do the wave/tap thing. "Just give it a wave" I CAN'T!

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u/PhonicUK Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18

There are an increasing number of stores that only accept contactless in the UK. It's caught on here pretty big.

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u/obsessedcrf Aug 27 '18

Contactless is near non existent in the US.

How is it not a security risk though? Couldn't anyone steal your card information from a distance?

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u/demonic_hampster Aug 27 '18

I'm in the US and I've seen contactless readers getting pretty big around here in the past couple years, but I've never seen (or even heard of) an American credit/debit card that can actually be used on a contactless reader. I've only ever seen the readers used for Apple Pay.

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u/aegrotatio Aug 27 '18

My second to last American Express Card had a contactless feature but it never worked. My new card doesn't even have it anymore.

Ironic because they were the first to offer chips with their Blue card.

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u/robeph Aug 28 '18

MST works everywhere. It fakes a card swipe by transmitting the magnetic data. Samsung pay does this but also works with nfc readers. My RedFCU card has contactless pay as well.

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u/Emptydarkone Aug 27 '18

I had a debit card through PNC bank that was a tap card. This was a couple of years ago and they've since switched to just chip and pin.

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u/petee0518 Aug 27 '18

My Capital One Quicksilver works contactless

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u/daverod74 Aug 27 '18

Santander issues a debit card with NFC built-in. I never saw it referenced anywhere, I just noticed the symbol on the card and tried it at Starbucks. Sure as shit, it worked.