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Can my card with Visa payWave or my Visa Micro Tag be accidentally read by the secure reader if its in my purse or pocket?

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Can my card with Visa payWave or my Visa Micro Tag be accidentally read by the secure reader if its in my purse or pocket?

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To authorize a payment, you must wave your card or Visa Micro Tag directly within 1-2 inches of a secure reader that accepts Visa payWave payments, and it must be correctly oriented to be processed. Only the secure readers at authorized merchants can process the information on the Visa Micro Tag and Visa cards with Visa payWave. Each time you make a Visa payWave payment, a unique transaction code is generated, which has to be verified through the reader before the transaction can be completed.