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" There&amp;#039;s a real beauty to the contactless card; fitting in with our lazy lifestyles perfectly, all we now have to do with a contactless-enabled card on a purchase of less than \u00A330 is wave it mystically just above\u00A0the screen of a chip and pin machine and the money whizzes out of our account and into that of whatever shop you&amp;#039;re in.\u00A0 But experts have warned that we may be putting ourselves at risk of fraud and theft by handing these contactless payment cards over to staff members, urging us instead to make sure we do the tapping ourselves.\u00A0 Why? We&amp;#039;re making ourselves vulnerable to having our cards &amp;#039;skimmed&amp;#039;, according to\u00A0Andrew Goodwill, founder of\u00A0the anti-fraud campaigning organisation,\u00A0Goodwill.\u00A0 Skimming a card is a method\u00A0of fraudulently copying the information contained in its magnetic strip, commonly used by swindlers. The information is illegally copied and then placed onto a blank card which can subsequently be used to make purchases without the real card owner&amp;#039;s knowledge.   &amp;quot;The setup in many pubs and restaurants means that the card machine is situated behind the bar. Change is needed here, but it must first come from consumers,&amp;quot; Goodwill told the Telegraph. &amp;quot;They should live by the rule that they take as much care of their card as they\u00A0would with their wallet. Customers are being made vulnerable to having their card skimmed if they hand their card over, so they should refuse when asked to do this.&amp;quot; While the\u00A0UK Cards Association&amp;#039;s best practice guidelines do state that contactless cards shouldn&amp;#039;t be handed over to cashiers, this is not compulsory and many vendors do not adhere to this. Which means in the meantime we&amp;#039;ll have to make sure we&amp;#039;re enforcing our own strict policy: don&amp;#039;t hand over your valuables, even if the risk does seem minimal. #LifeLessons Follow Cat on Twitter. Like this? Come and check us out on Snapchat Discover.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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