not to wrap my cards in tin foil?

[Nagoo]

Stranger informs me that she read on the internet that in America 'men in vans' have technology to read your bank cards and the only way to stop them taking all my money is to wrap them in tin foil.

They will target ladies handbags and men's back pockets, she informs me.

AIBU to ignore her and keep my cards in my non-tin-foil purse?

she seems one step away from a tin-foil hat

So... if I wrap my contactless card in tin foil, I have to unwrap it before I can pay using a contactless till point?

frasersmummy Thanks for that :) At the time I thought it must have been online, and it does seem like the lesser of two evils - I've set up a second account just to use for online stuff so if anyone gets hold of that info they won't get anything.

BTW - my card was used to buy mobile phone credit, the fraud people at the bank said this is very, very common. It did make me wonder why the mobile companies don't insist on pin numbers for online transactions.

Yes storm.

Check for parked up vans before you unwrap

So if I wear my tinfoil hat will that mean no one can read my mind?

Yes, probably, Shesparkles

Personally, I'd hide the tinfoil hat underneath another, more conventional hat. That'll stop the skeptics from pointing at you and trying to tell you that you're being silly.

you have no power over me!

From the link selling the wallet:

"The nightmare scenario was brought forth recently - a bomb lies waiting in a garbage can. Sensitive electronics read the identification cards and passports of the people who walk by, waiting until somebody of your nationality comes close..."

I put a tinfoil wrapper under my knickers and over my love pit to stop nasty men looking at it using X Ray glasses

Tin foil is so last year, I never leave the house unless I'm wearing this

I sooooooo want one!

What about loyalty cards?

I mean, my Neros card is nearly full and thats worth a free large skinny latte (nearly £3 you know!).

I better keep that close by and well-wrapped.

Don't use just any old tin foil though - you need THIS

Check out the reviews.....

If I wrapped my credit cards in foil I'm damn sure I'd bollocks up the magnetic strip and it would be me that couldn't use them, not some random, van-driving scally.....

I'm the only one who thought greetings cards when they read the title then

Not just you... Foil-wrapped greetings cards. For when you want to say 'I can't afford an envelope'

I thought foil was more expensive than cheap envelopes?

But anyhow, foil-wrapped greetings cards would in fact say "I forgot to pick up the free envelope when I bought the card"

That's brilliant dawn

oooh that does look like good foil. :)