MasterCard expands the limit of payments without asking for a PIN so that you do not get the coronavirus

In the current state of emergency by the coronavirus is forbidden to leave the house except for a series of exceptional cases. The most common of all is purchase, and is that at the end of the day we all need to eat and do shopping. Mastercard has taken steps to avoid some of the more common problems.

For a long remain at home, does you no good if the only time of the week that we can go out we end up inspiring us with, so it is important to take all the preventive measures possible. To avoid contracting or spreading it to others if you have the virus but still not the symptoms.

Pay with a card without asking for the PIN to prevent infections by coronaviruses

Few days ago we offered advice on how to pay with the mobile phone makes it more secure to buy using cash. One of the tips essential was make payments under 20 euros. The reason for this is that the card payments contactless (and, by extension, mobile payments) we do not ask for PIN for purchases lower than this figure, evitándonos touch the POS.

Mobile payments: tips for miniminzar the spread of coronavirus

If you have to make purchases these days, the use of mobile payments implies a lower probability of infection of the coronavirus, following a few tips.

While the advice is useful, we also limited the volume of things that we can buy in each output. That we have allowed to go for shopping, do not mean that we have to go out and buy all those days, so the more you buy of a batch, the less trips we have to do to purchase and less risk of infections.

But with the mobile it is not necessary to touch the POS to pay, it is convenient that you clean the cell if you put it outside of the house.

These payment limits depend on the measure of each card, and Mastercard has decided to extend the limits so that we can make major purchases without us having to enter the PIN. In Spain, the limit goes from 20 euros to 50 euros, a figure that means that we can make the middle of shopping and paying safely.

In the next few days it is possible that other payment cards to expand the limits, as the decision of Mastercard responds to a request from 29 countries to increase the limit of payments. We will inform you with each of the news.

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