How did they buy hundreds of dollars of cigarettes with the card though? Normally contactless payments are meant to require a pin every 5 transactions within th

How did they buy hundreds of dollars of cigarettes with the card though? Normally contactless payments are meant to require a pin every 5 transactions within the same day and the amount you can pay is limited - and most banks will reverse contactless transactions without much trouble since they are not hard authenticated. This is unlimited but requires a pin above £100 - I don't see a problem with that, it's effectively what we have now but without having to put the card in