The 'Tap to Pay' reader is supposed to charge a card only if it's within a few centimeters of the card reader. The customer was shocked when she went through checkout at Safeway and was told she already paid.
"And the next day, now I can't stop thinking about it, because it's just wrong," Destiny said."They stole my personal information without my permission and my knowledge," she said.
"She goes, 'It's all your fault. You should have had your credit cards protected.' And I went, 'Wow,'" Destiny said.Turns out her card has the newer RFID technology that lets you pay by tapping it on a payment terminal.A store's payment terminal will pick up the radio frequency in the card to process a one-time payment.
Safeway did not say why its reader charged her card while it was in her purse, or how often this has happened, telling us:
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