In London, themobile paymentis so widespread that it has even become common to replace your Oyster Card (equivalent to the Navigo Pass in Paris) with the NFC chip in your iPhone. The feature even has a name: Transport Express, and is used as far as New York. But sometimes, particularly annoying bugs - since they directly affect their finances - take more money from users than expected,as we already reported from the Big Apple last year.
This time on the other hand, as reported by the British dailyThe Telegraph, it is in the economic capital of Europe that a similar anecdote took place. This is where Cymbre Barnes, aged twenty-eight, found herself with a ticket costing more than £1,500 even though she only had purchases in her basket equivalent to a total of aroundfour bookssterling, including bananas. That is almost four hundred times less than the amount displayed on his invoice.
Self-checkouts, not so practical
Despite everything, because she chose to settle the transaction with the serviceApple Pay, the young woman did not immediately understand what had just happened. It is by leaving theself-checkoutat the local Marks & Spencer that she then realized that her bank account had just been withdrawn by £1,602. The fault was a technical failure of the machine, fortunately subsequently reimbursed by the responsible store.
If payments with bank cards are limited to a few dozen euros, the threshold having increased since the health crisis which is still ongoing, this is in fact not the case for the Wallet or for its equivalent on Android. Suffice to say that it is necessary to carefully check the amount to be spent, which is normally customary sinceFace IDor Touch ID add additional security to this practice.
Beware of children
Note that although this mishap is likely to only concern the most clumsy adults, this is not always the case in this type of case. So, in 2020,a young girl ruined her parents in secondsbecause they had not properly locked purchases on their seventh generation iPad.
At the time,la page Apple for Kidshowever, did not yet exist…
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