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Posted: 12/9/2014 11:10:05 AM EDT

Between all the shopping carts, homeless, section 8er's, squatters now I'll ad tech thieves to the list. I'm never in Henderson but on Sunday I took a trip to Camping World to pick up a few things for my trailer in Rachel. They didn't have what I needed so I never made a purchase. Well last night I get a charge of $302.99 and $75 within 2 minutes at a Speedy Mart on S. Eastern. The $302.99 charge is an ATM listed as a "swipe" and the $75 so I'm assuming gas. So it don't take a genius to figure out some loser read my card that was in my wallet, made his own card and his own pin #. If any of you are on the fence about getting one of those RFID blocking wallets just buy the damn thing.

I've had the squatters next door "redistribute" my water spigot in the front yard for 5 gallons of water last week and now this....any of you see the movie "Falling Down"? I'm close to that right now.....

Posted: 12/9/2014 12:53:17 PM EDT

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Or your card could have been duped and finally used on that day as a co-inkidink. Moot point and I hear what you're throwing down.

PS. camping world sucks!
You should have stopped by since you were in the neighborhood.

Posted: 12/9/2014 1:36:52 PM EDT

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Fuck technology....if cash in a money clip my dad used to use in the 70's was good enough for him it is for me. I still have his clip too....

...and before anyone says it..I realize the irony of the above post coming from a guy posting to the Internet on his smartphone

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Posted: 12/9/2014 5:26:17 PM EDT

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RFID I won't do. When I get new cards, if they come with RFID chips, I call and request new cards without. All companies have so far sent replacement cards without the RFID chips at no charge.

Posted: 12/9/2014 8:04:52 PM EDT

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I would rather someone steal the credit card company's money rather than mine. I love the cash argument, but if I lose my card they overnight a new one for free. If I lose my cash, I am out the cash.

Posted: 12/9/2014 10:54:11 PM EDT

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I think a few seconds in a microwave fixes the RFID problem.

Posted: 12/10/2014 9:56:46 PM EDT

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This happened to me in St.George of all places.
Went for a few days, had my card on me but payed cash for everything because of a previous problem.
I get back and bank calls and says suspicious transactions in fucking St.George.

Posted: 12/10/2014 10:14:16 PM EDT

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How can one tell if a credit card has an RFID strip? Is it obvious?

Posted: 12/11/2014 2:07:18 AM EDT

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I was told it's that computer circuit looking thing on the front of some cards. I found out my card was swiped through a reader....probably a fast food worker....use cash.

Posted: 12/11/2014 2:54:26 PM EDT

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Typically your card will have one of a few indicators:

Exposed chip on the card:

Posted: 12/11/2014 4:38:01 PM EDT

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The exposed chip is what we will all be going to. It isn't RFID and it is harder to duplicate than a swipe card.

Posted: 12/12/2014 3:40:15 AM EDT

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Typically your card will have one of a few indicators:

http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rfid-credit-card.jpg

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https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtGyXxgR6kBNjUM-UPhn88hWTgT1r8fSK5tK0CYfake58fm-XuaA

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How can one tell if a credit card has an RFID strip? Is it obvious?

Typically your card will have one of a few indicators:

http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rfid-credit-card.jpg

Exposed chip on the card:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtGyXxgR6kBNjUM-UPhn88hWTgT1r8fSK5tK0CYfake58fm-XuaA

I realized that the microwave would probably also scramble the magnetic strip and kill the whole card.
But a careful hammer blow directly on the RFID chip should take just that out of action.

With the magnetic strip intact the card should still work, unless they delete the strip when using RFID?
None of my cards have RFID to experiment with.

Posted: 12/12/2014 5:54:41 PM EDT

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Just call the card company and request a card without the RFID chip. They will send you one. No need to beat your card to death. :)

Posted: 12/25/2014 2:57:23 PM EDT

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Apple Pay fixes this.

Posted: 1/1/2015 1:41:15 PM EDT

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Until you lose your phone and they hack your password.

If you got time, you start off with 0-0-0-0 and work your way up. Works....

Posted: 1/1/2015 4:43:13 PM EDT

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Because Apple has never had a data breach.

Posted: 1/3/2015 2:13:13 PM EDT

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Because Apple has never had a data breach.

Hacking someone's password that's set as "password" isn't my definition of a breach.

Regardless though, they don't hold your financial info so there's nothing to steal. If your phone is stolen, there are ways to deal with that. Bottom line though, same issue if your wallet is stolen although that's not what happened here but a nice attempt at a strawman. If you don't give the clerk/pimply teenager/waiter your card in the first place, they can't steal the information that's on it.

Posted: 1/5/2015 1:53:03 PM EDT

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Until you lose your phone and they hack your password.

If you got time, you start off with 0-0-0-0 and work your way up. Works....

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Apple Pay fixes this.

Until you lose your phone and they hack your password.

If you got time, you start off with 0-0-0-0 and work your way up. Works....

you have to have the finger print to work apple pay I think. so unless they can hack my password to get into the phone and my fingerprint to get apple pay to work then i'm safe. Applepay is great, just wish more people took it.

Posted: 1/6/2015 1:11:41 PM EDT

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you have to have the finger print to work apple pay I think. so unless they can hack my password to get into the phone and my fingerprint to get apple pay to work then i'm safe. Applepay is great, just wish more people took it.

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Apple Pay fixes this.

Until you lose your phone and they hack your password.

If you got time, you start off with 0-0-0-0 and work your way up. Works....

you have to have the finger print to work apple pay I think. so unless they can hack my password to get into the phone and my fingerprint to get apple pay to work then i'm safe. Applepay is great, just wish more people took it.

if it was a toe print...

You want a toe? I can get you a toe. Believe me. There are ways. Dude you don't wanna know about it. Believe me.

Yeah but Walter...

Hell I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon with nail polish. Fucking amatures. They send us a toe, we're suppose to shit ourselves with fear. Jesus Christ.

Posted: 1/7/2015 12:54:53 PM EDT

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if it was a toe print...

You want a toe? I can get you a toe. Believe me. There are ways. Dude you don't wanna know about it. Believe me.

Yeah but Walter...

Hell I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon with nail polish. Fucking amatures. They send us a toe, we're suppose to shit ourselves with fear. Jesus Christ.

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Apple Pay fixes this.

Until you lose your phone and they hack your password.

If you got time, you start off with 0-0-0-0 and work your way up. Works....

you have to have the finger print to work apple pay I think. so unless they can hack my password to get into the phone and my fingerprint to get apple pay to work then i'm safe. Applepay is great, just wish more people took it.

if it was a toe print...

You want a toe? I can get you a toe. Believe me. There are ways. Dude you don't wanna know about it. Believe me.

Yeah but Walter...

Hell I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon with nail polish. Fucking amatures. They send us a toe, we're suppose to shit ourselves with fear. Jesus Christ.

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