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Can my M&T Check Card or M&T Visa Credit Card enabled with Visa payWave be accidentally read by the secure reader if its in my purse or pocket?

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Can my M&T Check Card or M&T Visa Credit Card enabled with Visa payWave be accidentally read by the secure reader if its in my purse or pocket?

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No. To authorize a payment, you must wave your card 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 M&T cards with Visa payWave.