Contactless bank cards

[Charles Lindsey]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:40:40 -0000, Peter Mitchell <otcbn at callnetuk.com>  
wrote:

> Not to my son, who is paid minimum wage. And the skimmers can milk the  
> golden goose by concentrating on easy targets who will never notice the  
> fraud; drunks, students, doddery old ladies who didn't even know their  
> card was contactless. My son didn't notice it was contactless until I  
> pointed it out.

How easy would it be to snip through the pickup loop on the card, without  
otherwise destroying the card's functionality?

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