Anyone remember the American Express commercial where a guy talks about how he was at a big client dinner and his credit card got declined? “I was so embarrassed,” the voice actor moans, and then goes on to relate how his father told him to get an American Express. With no pre-set spending limit, he informs us, he’ll never have to worry about being declined again.
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Lou Sirico takes to task the Wall Street Journal over its recent article about consumers putting their credit cards in the microwave in order to fry the RFID chips in them.
The story centered on RFID embedded cards such as the Mastercard PayPass, the American Express ExpressPay, and Visa’s Blink.
Lou writes:
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