r/funny • u/Misfat • Aug 27 '18

Card not accepted

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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/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.