What was the scam?

[MookJong]

What a strange thing to say.

Oh come on, you know fine well who is responsible for an unproportionately high number of street scams and pickpocketing. My mate in the police is always on about it.

 

[new boy]

1. Step one - Steal someones card
2. Step two - Give card back
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Any statistics on these demographics monopolising pick-pocketing or is 'my mate is always on about it' the new wiki source?

From what i have seen pick-pocketing is prevalent in areas that are busy with tourists and normally carried out by local, low income demographic. This may be the native people of the country or a foreign community which has a significant population in that city.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Maybe they wanted to chat to one of the ladies at your table?

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

was it a nice resturant? don't normally get riffraff like that in a decent restaurant and assuming it was as it was a 30th?


Also were they foreign?

Dem bloody ferriners takin' all our jerbs and NHS

 

[Efour]

Riff raff restaurant, you get what you pay for gutterscum, working class lowlifes.

 

[Greebo]

This is a myth.
There is no device that can clone cards wirelessly, there is also no device that can use your card just by touching your pocket, unless that itself has been stolen from a registered account. (and then the bank should be informed and blocked way before anything else happens)

Banks didnt spend many years with the tech to have it fail on such a basic flaw.
The Which findings which triggered all this, was a lot of bs.

I'm sure I've seen this on TV as well. You got a link to proof it's all fake?

 

[Destination]

If someone has a contactless console that they have programmed at a set amount, and your have a contactless card in your pocket, why would it not register the sale and work?

-edit completely different to cloning a card.

 

[Greebo]

If someone has a contactless console that they have programmed at a set amount, and your have a contactless card in your pocket, why would it not register the sale and work?

-edit completely different to cloning a card.

Like this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-account-details-contactless-card-wallet.html

Loads of google links showing or claiming this is possible. Just wonder what proof Iamtheoneneo has links to that all of this is a myth?