What is an RFID Wallet and Why You Need One When Travelling!

What is an RFID Wallet and why you need one when travelling

These days, it’s a full time job keeping up with technology and then keeping ahead of the criminals who try to profit from it. Its a case of great new advances that you then have to scramble to protect. Now days credit cards have built in Radio Frequency Identification chips that have information that is vulnerable to anyone with an RFID reader.

An RFID reader uses radio waves to skim your credit cards details. I mean that is pretty scary stuff to think how easy it is for these criminals to pull off stealing your personal information. All they have to do is walk around with a scanner in their pocket and you are instantly at their mercy.

RFID Reader Scammer

RFID blocking wallets are designed to insulate your cards from these scammers by blocking the radio waves from there RFID readers. You definitely need protection when you travel overseas as every nefarious individual is always targeting the tired tourist. You may think that you don’t need it in little old New Zealand but our quiet backwater may be a bit later in getting all these scams but it still gets them. So we think it is better to be safe than sorry.

Now you want to think about style and size and what suits you best. RFID wallets can come in all sizes. You can get very small ones that will only hold a couple of your most important cards or you can go for wallets that hold a few more cards or you can go for a purse that holds it all.

We have an awesome range of RFID Anti Theft wallets that not only protect the personal information on your cards but they look cool.