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Have you ever used a contactless card to pay for goods up to 20 gbp at a local store? Well, this is very convenient, let's face it, that's because you're simply touching the screen and make the payment, is that easy. But because you're not using a PIN (in a form of biometrics) or similar, there's a big security risk involved. And you know what several banks have done to avoid any dispute on that, they don't issue any receipt for the transaction, therefore no proof. In my opinion this is BAD, really BAD, I've heard they are going to lift this limit as soon as it will become generally available. Since banks are now sending contactless cards by default, the risk is there, and rather than update the security on the system or come up with other ways of securing the POS's and the cards (like fingerprint in Apple Pay), they would rather prefer current approach which is not great, I don't even understand how it got approved by Government or Financial Con

If you ever decide to open an account with these guys think twice before you do it. The only way to delete/cancel an account you've previously created is to actually phone them and ask to be removed. They give you no reference number or anything, just a promise that you will be contacted within 3 days (via email) to confirm the actual deletion. I promise I will come back with an update of the status, because I just phoned them today, spoke with a guy named Tyler, hope I'll get a confirmation back soon. If not, apart from removing all my personal details from their account, I will also change address and name to something like John Doe to make things straight. And stay away from them in the future, I'm sure there are other similar service providers out there offering same service in a more transparent way, giving you the option to cancel the account and delete date whenever you want to, with no spam emails sent every couple of days even if you've un-checked all the box