Beware of the new tap to pay scam

Christian Peterson reporter@riverbendnews.org Scams and scammers are constantly evolving. It seems like every time the public figures out a way to combat a scam, a new one pops up. Now, the Better Business Bureau is warning of a new scam taking advantage of the popular tap-to-pay option used with credit cards and smartphones. The new scam has been dubbed “ghost tapping,” and is considered dangerous because it can happen without victims even knowing. “They could use cellphones; they can use specific card-reader technologies,” Bryan Oglesby with the Better Business Bureau of West Florida said to FOX 13. “It’s using wireless technology for people who have ‘tap- to-pay�