as the technology gets smarter, so do the criminals and able to victimize you literally through the air. ted cherniki explains. reporter: watch a man sit down next to a woman and without touching her steal the key information from the credit card. here s your visa number. how did you do that? reporter: he works for identity stronghold specializing in electronic fraud protection. look for this symbol on your credit card. if you have it, i sends out a radio frequency identification signal. it s designed to bring your card close to an object and. it without swiping the card. thieves figured out how to expedite this. a passing glance and he s got the info. simple as the chip added to once functioning pin pad. reporter: police see a new level of cybercrime. when a merchant s not looking thieves swap and inside you find one extra small computer chip to take that information and
so do the criminals. and they are now able to victimize you literally through the air. ted cherniki explains. reporter: watch a man sit down next to a woman and without touching her steal the key information from the credit card. here s your visa number. how did you do that? reporter: he works for identity stronghold specializing in electronic fraud protection. look for this symbol on your credit card. if you have it, i sends out a radio frequency identification signal. it s designed to bring your card close to an object and. it without swiping the card. thieves figured out how to exploit that. a passing glance and he s got the info. simple as the chip added to once functioning pin pad. reporter: police are seeing a whole new level of cyber crime. when a merchant s not looking thieves swap and inside you find one extra small computer chip to take that information and via bluetooth broadcasts it to a distance of up to 30 feet. increasingly, thieves are going