> On 07 September 2021 at 14:46 ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > > Intro: > we are now issued credit and debit cards with a little "speaker" symbol > on them so that one can be totally contactless when using a card.. just > swish your card on the vicinity of/ over the designated reader and it > takes your money. IN NY we have these things called an OMNI reader on > busses and subways. since I am a senior I have my own card which one > still has to swipe because the Omni machine is reading your regular > credit crds and doesn't know you are old. HOwever that does not keep > the OMNI machine which is often located right next to the metrocard > slot, from reading a credit card that gets close to it. bottom line.. > MY debit card is in a lanyard that hangs on my neck > and at a level that , when I leaned forward to dip my metrocard got too > close to the OMNI reader and releaved me of $2.75 .. > > NOw I have to pay especially close attention to my money so I found what > happened and eventually got my money back and was told I should keep my > credit cards in those protective sleeves they make for passport cards. > I also can't get another card without the chip in it that lets you swish > instead of insert a card ... > > anyone know how I can disable that feature without disabling my regular > chip or swipe strip? IT is at the opposite end of the card from the > regular chip and not near the > swipe strip.
Contactless can be turned off by the banks on individual dards here. Two thoughts: 1 get a sightly larger purse. 2 keep two contactless cards in your lanyard pouch. The machine will not choose and will flag up an error. A further thought; lanyards are usually designed as breakaways these days. If you have a contactless card on one of those, an enterprising person could swipe it and do some serious damage to your bank balance before you can get it stopped. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
