If you have a bank card that supports wireless features, beware of vulnerabilities and security vulnerabilities that allow fraudsters to steal money from your balance.
And cards with wireless characteristics, are those that have a graphic similar to the icon of the networks "Wi-Fi", and the owner can pay through it as soon as it touches the payment device without having to pass inside.
The bank cards of this type include the short-term NFC, which enables financial transactions as soon as the card approaches the payment device.
Security experts warn that thieves can use these cards to steal money by passing the device near a person's card, even in his wallet and in his pocket.
According to the website of the company "Visa", this type of payments in these cards are wireless, provided that the distance between the card and the device is not more than 4 centimeters, with the possibility of a single withdrawal within a specified period of time.
Some banks set a financial limit to pay in such a way in an effort to avoid suspicious withdrawals.
In the past few days, Abu Dhabi police have issued a warning to steal credit card balances in close proximity to the electronic magnetization scheme, following the spread of videos on social media sites showing cash withdrawals as soon as the card reader passes the victim's back pockets without touching their card Banking or a sense of theft during shopping in the shops.
According to the UAE-based Al Bayan, financial balances can be truncated as soon as they are connected or passed close without contact with credit card readers located in retail stores, using a code that uses a magnetic code.
Police should be careful that hackers can convert PINs from secure and encrypted to open numbers, citing common mistakes the customer must avoid in order not to be stolen or falsified.
Abu Dhabi Police provided a number of tips, notably caution from the reader, which copies the credit card data when used, which contains a tiny micro-camera that stores the secret numbers of the bank card and sends its magnetic tape encoders to the fraudster to be able to re-enter the data Which allows him to buy again.
People with such cards should be careful about how they carry them, and some companies are making leather wallets that disable wireless payment capabilities on cards of this type.
