On Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 3:40:38 PM UTC-4, Hank Rogers wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:11:27 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 6 Aug 2019 22:49:47 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2019-08-06, graham > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The crooks had
> >>>>> swapped out the pads in a number of stores.....
> >>>>
> >>>> They hadda a "heads-up" mini-documentary on that very thing on one
> >>>> of the major networks.
> >>>>
> >>>> They sed debit/credit cards could even stolen from "swipe-a-card"
> >>>> gas pumps. Never buy gas with credit/debit card if there is not a
> >>>> padlock on the door on the pump. It takes all of 10 secs to swap
> >>>> out an illegal "card reader" on most gas pumps.
> >>>>
> >>>> nb
> >>>
> >>> You'd have to be pretty dumb not to spot it nb!
> >>
> >> No they are very sophisticated now and not obvious at all. The
> >> scammers even have hand held sorts where it's not at the machine now.
> >> They just walk by. Get RFID protectors.
> >
> > Neither my debit card nor my credit card has an RFID chip.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> How'd you manage that? Does your bank give you a choice of whether
> or not to have the chips?

It has a chip, but not an RFID chip. RFID is a very specific kind of
chip (for that matter, so is the EMV chip on credit and debit cards).

Cindy Hamilton