In today's world we rely so heavy on our cards. Not those store discount cards that get you savings each week while doing your grocery shopping. Not even those decks of cards that we sit down and play go fish with our children. I am talking about bank cards. Little seemingly magical pieces of plastic with a black magnetic stripe on the back of them and usually a spot where a signature once was that now is just a smudged remnant of that signature.
Although not magical at all it is a heavily relied on way of completing a transaction in exchange for various goods and services. Unfortunately most of the time a good thing has the ability to be used badly. These banking cards offer us the opportunity to be able to be used just about everywhere and the risk of loosing or carrying around cash is all but eliminated. The downside of banking cards is that a lot of them contain RFID (radio frequency identification) chips within them which are necessary for NFC (near field communications) devices to be able to conduct financial transactions. Unfortunately criminals can exploit these banking cards and steal your information by using something similar to this device to the right.
Now of course the criminal is not just going to be walking around waving this devices around various persons, they would be sneaky and walk around with it in a box with there hand in it and walking within a busy and very crowded street. The more people the better the chance they would strike is big. Of course there are more than this one scanner there are others that are smaller and the technology to steal your bank information is always getting better to do just that.
With these RFID/NFC Contactless Blocking Cards by SmartProduct you can really help put security back were it belongs...in your wallet. These cards are the same size as a banking card and only 0.9mm thick. The best thing about these cards is you don't have to worry about a power source or batteries as they use the devices scanning them as a source of power to prevent your banking cards from being read or scanned. With these blocking cards you can even see for yourself that they work by trying to pay for something in the store at a checkout that has a contactless scanner or NFC device to pay for transactions. While leaving the banking card in your wallet you will see for yourself that your transaction will not be successful until you take it out of the immediate area; in this case the wallet, that it may be in.
There have been sleeves developed that your can put each card you want to protect in, but they are very clumsy and can make it more difficult to complete a transaction than if you just paid with a big handful of cash, not very convenient. To find out if this product is right for you check out this link here: RFID/NFC Contactless Blocking Cards by SmartProduct.
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