Wylins Company Explains How To Tell If Your Credit Card IS RFID Chiped

Explains RFID and ;how to combat it.

(LosAngeles.CityRegions.Com, December 16, 2013 ) Grass Valley, California -- Grass Valley, California—The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has long proven its wide scope of benefits to humans. This technology uses chips composed of tiny threads that transmit information from the card to an RFID scanner, which reads the necessary details to accomplish a transaction.

The benefits of RFIDs are acknowledged in different areas of society. It has tremendously improved the processes of banking and financial institutions. Also serving as passes in trail way systems and expressways. At the same time, Radio Frequencies are used as access grantors to employees at work, and to students at school. The aforementioned are also the very reason for the growing amount of RFID usage in the world.

To know if your card has RFID chips, consider the following tips.

> Look for the PayPass logo or the waves on the card.
> Test it out on a PayPass reader and see if it works.
>You may check if your credit card company hosts RFID cards over the internet—just key in the company name with the word "RFID".
>Or you may directly call the credit card company regarding this query.

Considering the growing number of RFID users, the cases of identity theft are also increasing. Stealing information from the credit card is just as easy as walking along with the prospect victim. With scanners, the suspect can actually be a few feet away from the pockets where the cards are stored. And in no time, information contained in the RFID cards are illegally lifted.

Given this crisis, experts advise RFID users to store their cards in cases. Wylins Company, a growing business in Northern California, answers this dilemma with its stylish and sleek credit card cases, which keep RFID cards away from virtual thieves.

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The Wylins Company promotes products for living. It is their goal to have every item from Wyllns be sensible and useful, such as the RFID Credit Card Cases for Women, never gimmicky or faddish. These aluminum cases are designed to protect the owner from credit card identity theft.

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