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How does an Oyster card work? | Alphr

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Beep. The gates clunk open. The Oyster card has become synonymous with London transport, but, for most of us, it's nothing more than another card in the wallet. It's technology reduced to nothing but two noises: a happy beep or an angry blip. Inside that slip of blue plastic, however, there's more than just a dumb microchip.

How does it work?

At its most basic, an Oyster card...

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Here's how to protect your contactless card from scammers ...

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The trouble with making something super quick and easy to pay with is that it can also make fraud quick and super easy.

Spotted by an eagle-eyed Facebook user ( originally in Russia ), the scam allows thieves to extract a quick £30 from your pocket without you even...

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