To believe RFID cards crime is occurring, you have to ignore that RFID readers can read RFID information from many yards away only in perfect conditions. The actual conditions of multiple greeting cards in someone's wallet or purse, blocked by other cards and material and surrounded by all kinds of other metal things (e. g., keys or coins), all lead to RFID cards being hard to read at distance. Basically, when used at a merchant with normal visitors, RFID cards must be within a few cms to work. You often can't even keep it inside a wallet and have the signal reach the merchant reader.

A few assume the criminal mastermind has got the best RFID audience and the victim is alone and is essentially holding their card away in front of those so the reader has a definite shot at RFID eavesdropping. Let's assume the lawbreaker can actually get all the information available from a wireless read.

Many RFID credit cards will only readily transmit the credit card number and expiration date

I've written before about the non-existence of RFID credit-based card offense, a least as marketed by all the sellers selling anti-RFID shielding products. I'm one of the few voices constantly stating that buying RFID-blocking wallets and handbags, sleeves and the like would be a waste material of time and money. I've frequently said that I can't find a single documented case of RFID credit card offense. Each time I write about this, I get tons of angry email from vendors of such products as well as people who "just know" that they have been patients of RFID cards crime.The "victims" who write me personally always speak about a secret man, acting strangely, who walked by with an obvious device, that they firmly believed to be an RFID reader, and soon enough thereafter their credit cards has a fraudulent fee on it. I usually answer that a "feeling" that RFID fraud happened just isn't evidence of an genuine crime, and this I still, after FID car offense has most likely took place. 

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