{"id":79731,"date":"2025-09-20T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79731"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:49:21","slug":"revealed-contactless-bank-card-scam-letting-26000-fare-dodgers-travel-for-free-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/20\/revealed-contactless-bank-card-scam-letting-26000-fare-dodgers-travel-for-free-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Contactless bank card scam letting 26,000 fare dodgers travel for free in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1MUq4e.img?w=534&amp;h=292&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Around 2,000 serial fare dodgers are prosecuted by TfL every year - Yinks and Maryla are pictured questioning a suspect (Channel 5)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 26,000 people dodge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/transport-for-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Transport for London\u00a0<\/a>(TfL) fares every year using a contactless bank card hack, a new documentary reveals.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/revealed-contactless-bank-card-scam-letting-26-000-fare-dodgers-travel-for-free-in-london\/ar-AA1MUbHj?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 26,000 people dodge\u00a0Transport for London\u00a0(TfL) fares every year using a contactless bank card hack, a new documentary reveals.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fare-dodgers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79733,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79731\/revisions\/79733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}