Now it can be done inexpensively with the ICFE’s new anti-RFID Credit/Debit Card Sleeves.
Practically anywhere someone goes with ID and/or credit/debit cards on their person they are very vulnerable to thieves - electronic pickpockets - unless they have these new sleeves with the anti-RFID technology to protect their cards.
Here is what to protect: Driver’s licenses, passport cards, military and government IDs, credit cards, debt cards, bank cards, and medical and other insurance cards. Cards that are carried in pockets, or kept in a wallet, pocketbook or briefcase are especially vulnerable. The result is stolen credit and identity and the victims didn’t feel a thing. The hand held RFID scanners look like a small laptop notebook.
All the user needs to do is stand near an entrance to a bank or store and scan the unprotected cards of unsuspecting consumers. The nonprofit Institute of Consumer Financial Education, based in San Diego, CA, (icfe.info) is introducing new, specially laminated credit/debit card sleeves designed to keep personal information safe from prying electronic eavesdroppers. Electronic pick pockets will be out in force during the Christmas shopping season, especially at the malls.
The secret is the certified lamination consisting of a poly film and RFID shielding substrate. The new technology prevents the magnetic stripe, found on almost all passport, ID cards and credit/debit cards, and even those with a chip embedded therein, from being read by RFID scanners, no matter how close the scanner is held to the card/chip as long as the card/chip is kept inside the ICFE sleeves. The ICFE first made the credit/debit card sleeves, a/k/a the credit card condom, available in 1993. Since then, hundreds of thousands are in circulation world-wide. Sleeves are 10 for $10 postage paid.
