Protect yourself!

You have credit card that are PAYPASS and payWave compliant? 

So your are at risk.  This kind of card have a radio wave antenna that emits a RFID signal(radio-frequency identification). That's the way you can pay your purchases, by passing the card close to a RFID reader terminal.   

Today with the mobility, anyone that own a mobile phone with the needed technlogy, can install a necessary software to be able to steal your informations on your credit card.  

The doctape protection will work too, but for only 1.25$ each, you'll have a pretty card protector that fit in your wallet.

Keep your credit cards safe in our paper sleeves cast in aluminum, which protects you from any fraudulent wanting to steal your information with RFID waves.

Don't panic, just be carefull!

RFID cards

MasterCard: Aims to have all cards in Canada enabled with its PayPass contactless system by end of year. Major issuers include Bank of Montreal, National Bank, Capital One, President's Choice Financial, Canadian Tire Financial, Citigroup.

Visa: Has 31 million cardholders in Canada but would only disclose that "several million" of those contain its payWave RFID technology. Major issuers are Royal Bank and TD. Notable non-players are CIBC and Scotiabank.

Here's how it's work

June 2011 Consumer Reports Magazine.

New credits cards pose security problem (CBC News)

An RFID system has three key components:

• An RFID tag (or transponder), a small piece of material comprising a chip with some degree of memory to store data, and a radio wave antenna to transmit it (Figure 1);Figure 1
  Source: GS1 Canada.
• An RFID reader, a device that communicates with the RFID tag and transforms data transmitted from the tag into digital information that can be stored and used by a computer;
• Software / databases that analyse and act on the information, and convert tag data into usable business inputs, such as inventory tracking or product identification.