THE ULTIMATE, RFID BLOCKING, MINIMALIST WALLET is a small tough wallet for a tough life, it is a tiny slip wallet designed to carry your essentials in a slim and elegant sleeve made from super tough 1000 denier Cordura that is lined that is lined with CRYPTALLOY® RFID Blocking Foil to ensure security against credit and ID card fraud as you go about your daily life. It works either as a minimalist wallet, as a business card holder or both. www.kickstarter.com

RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification and it’s used for the short-distance communication of information by an increasing number of “smart cards” for credit and security access.

The new “Tap and Pay” smart cards are very convenient, making shopping easier – for small purchases you can just touch the reader and it processes your payment, and on public transport you can speed through the queues with ease using a smart payment card.

BUT this convenience gives an ever-present risk of ID theft as these cards can be read even without you taking them out of your wallet by thieves next you in street, train or bus.

The problem is that many of today’s smart cards are effectively broadcasting valuable information, which is stored in the embedded RFID chips. Electronic pickpockets can target your information from up to 10ft away! You just need to Google ‘e-pickpockets’ and you can see & read about this global epidemic and how easy it is for criminals to access your cards.

Electronic pick-pocketing is becoming more of a problem as the financial industry is currently phasing out magnetic strips on debit and credit cards in favour of RF enabled cards. This type of card is prone to “Skimming” or wireless credit and identity theft. Thieves can use a cheap RFID reader, which downloads your card information. From there, it can be copied to a blank card that essentially becomes a “clone” of your card. Now they have your credit card and you usually have no idea it’s been compromised until it’s too late. Some travellers have had their data accessed while in transit, and their bank accounts drained. Crowded transport hubs like airports, train stations and shopping centres are pick-pocketing hotspots, electronic or otherwise. So it is important to protect yourself if you decide to use a card that has RFID.

This wallet will secure your credit cards and folded notes for a night out on the town, during sports or just going about your daily life by blocking the RFID signal and so preventing your cards being accessed or cloned.

THE ULTIMATE MINIMALIST WALLET’S inner layer is made of a CRYPTALLOY® FOIL that blocks RFID waves and frequencies. This layer is super thin, meaning you won’t even know it’s there, and will not impede on the integrity of the wallet. The CRYPTALLOY® creates a Faraday Cage to make the RFID card impossible to read when it is in the wallet, protecting you from electronic pick-pocketing and identity theft.

CRYPTALLOY® is an expensive specially engineered foil that is designed and proven to block all RFID signals far better than the ordinary aluminium foil or metal fabric used in a lot of other RFID blocking products. The foil is capable of blocking any signals that may try to access your card if it is correctly used to create a Faraday Cage around the wallet to help prevent your credit or debit cards being ‘skimmed’.

CRYPTALLOY® privacy and data protection foil has been tested and certified by SGS/TÜV Saarland for shielding contactless chips against out-reading by unauthorized RFID readers on all common frequencies.

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RFID does not require line of sight to work, meaning that the RFID chip and the reader merely need to be within range of each other to communicate. Thieves can clone data on your ID pass cards and debit or credit cards onto new blank cards and for the ID and travel pass cards they don’t even need to decrypt any information that is stored.

Not only does CRYPTALLOY® foil suppress communication between your card and any unauthorized reader but, unbelievably, it creates an effective shield even if the RFID card is not completely surrounded by the foil, the mere presence of the material in the immediate vicinity is sufficient to ensure the blocking.