Revolut payment at checkout without authorization

Finance, Taxes, Banking, Insurance and Retirement
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I was at coop getting ready to pay for my shopping using my android phone.

I opened the TWINT app and was just about to enter my password when the payment was paid automatically and money withdrawn out of my Revolut app! Annoyingly, I didn't have any CHF in the account and it converted non-CHF currency to make this payment.

Has anyone else experience this before and how to stop the app from automatically making payments?

2
Does Twint have a certain amount below which you do not have to enter a PIN? Check the app and set that to zero.

3

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel…want_it_to_is/

It looks like this is not a Revolut problem but rather a Google Wallet problem. I didn’t think it was Google Wallet related at first because there was not wallet notification - it just arrived 20 minutes later.

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Wanted to write just that. You have set Google Wallet as your default NFC payment method. You will have to disable this in your phone NFC settings.

5
Interesting, on Apple Pay you have to double click and use Face ID to pay with a wallet card - unless its a travel card (ie London tube).

6
Disable everything related to Google. Google is evil, pure and simple.

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I'm not sure if this is a new thing because I've used wallet before and it always needed me to open it and press the 'pay' icon. I did update the phone a couple of days ago.

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I had a friend of mine that had the same problem, unless he had NFC disabled, payments were done automatically even when he had his phone locked.

Google developers nailed this one.

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The UI for the NFC setting is confusing too. I chose Samsung Pay as default (it is not set up) and selected 'pay with currently open app'.

I assumed that 'pay with currently open app' should make the 'default' irrelevant, but the UI doesn't reflect this.

TWINT is also not recognised as a payment app.

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Ha, I usually remove anything non-essential after getting a new phone. Just use Android Debug Bridge to get rid of anything you don’t need. One of the first APK to remove was google wallet

https://www.xda-developers.com/unins…t-root-access/