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Ways to prevent PCGS NFC chips from being read, in transit - foiled again!
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This was a first for me - does this really work for sensitive scanners?? Other methods?
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Looks like the way my wife wraps up banana bread.
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Tin foil?
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I've heard tinfoil prevents the scanners from scanning the NFC chip. I've never personally tested that out but I wrap all slabbed coins in the aluminum foil just as a precaution.
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I thought I was the only one who still uses that term. Jeez, buncha old fogies here.
Kinda reminds me the dreaded holiday fruit loaf. I've found that the foil does interfere with the signa!.
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I've done it on multiple occasions, it works perfectly.
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Foil is great to use, better be safe than sorry!
Always used and heard tin foil in my family, perhaps the different uses are regional.
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I always say aluminum foil. When I posted "Tin foil?", I was referring to his hat. Maybe my joke was a little too subtle.
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I had a package from DLRC arrive last week with the cardboard sleeve fully encased in tinfoil.
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Nice to hear the big guys catching on to this. I think foil alone should work in disrupting the signal.
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I call it tin foil too, less of a mouthful.
Should work just fine. You can buy little mylar sleeves for credit cards, passport cards, and others with NFC chips, which are just a layer of foil cemented to the mylar.
You do have to remember that there are two tiers of scanners. One is the low-powered one in your cell phone - that can't read beyond a few dozen mm. The other is the one you could build with a car battery, specially tuned antenna, and a small computer that sits in a shopping cart looking like a Homer bucket. Or - without trouble - I was able to find commercial units that read up to 20 meters.
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I used to work with a couple of people from England that called it aluminium foil (pronouncing the last syllable with an extra i in it like how you say titanium). I always liked the way they pronounced it and I sometimes still say it that way just for fun.
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