In the last few weeks my Credit Card folder has been setting off the 'exit' alarms at supermarkets. It IS fairly stuffed with plastic vouchers, but this is not new. What is new over the period is a new cash-back card - not sure if this is causing it 'cos I am hearing of other folk experiencing this. Either stores are increasing the sensitivity or this new card has an enhanced RFID.
Anyone else?
It could be an opportunity for a great scam, of course, if I were that way inclined. Push a trolley loaded with unpaid-for items out through the scanners. Leave the trolley outside and demonstrate to security wallah the problem. When he/she is convinced, return to trolley and scarper.
Store alarms
Re: Store alarms
I always used to set off store alarms, until one smart shop assistant suggested I check in my wallet to see if the RFID anti-theft device had been removed. There it was, hidden where it had been since I bought the wallet. Removed it, problem gone.
Re: Store alarms
My wallet does not have one of those. Would a card carry one?
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Re: Store alarms
I have a pair of trousers. They have a RFID pocket.
Alarmwise though I once bought a piece of software airside at Heathrow. Later, leaving a shop in Brussels the alarm went off. Fortunately the Chocolate shop didn't sell software.
If you carried one of those big magnets around . . . I wonder.
Daughter gave me a bottle of Welsh whiskey for Christmas. It still had the security cap on. Without a receipt I could hardly go back and get it removed.
Alarmwise though I once bought a piece of software airside at Heathrow. Later, leaving a shop in Brussels the alarm went off. Fortunately the Chocolate shop didn't sell software.
If you carried one of those big magnets around . . . I wonder.
Daughter gave me a bottle of Welsh whiskey for Christmas. It still had the security cap on. Without a receipt I could hardly go back and get it removed.
Re: Store alarms
- why am I not surprised?PN wrote:I have a pair of trousers. They have a RFID pocket.