Comment by wiradikusuma
17 days ago
Hmm, maybe for countries with strong consumer protection, yes.
I lost 3 credit cards INSIDE an airplane (hello AirAsia!). I only realized it when I turned on my phone while queuing at immigration and was bombarded with dozens of "Successful transaction" messages. That's ~30min from stepping off the airplane. When I checked my statements, I saw dozens of physical transactions (swipes/taps) with different merchants in different cities from the airport.
All 3 cards have different PINs. All require a PIN for transactions above ~USD200. Yet the banks rejected my disputes because "it's a physical transaction, so you must be the one doing it." Apparently, they all think I could fly to different cities, buy different items, and fly back to wait in immigration, all in 30 minutes.
I had missed the warning that this tech is now widespread. Must have not logged into Hacker News that day
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/nfc-gate-relay-attacks-2026/5...
But but my CC literally said "it's more secure" (I asked and complained about the contactless feature because it interfered with my transit card)
If my bank did this to me I would immediately drop them.
Lawsuit time! Against your bank.