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TIFU by showing my girlfriend my flipper device

So this happened this weekend.

My now ex girlfriend was out of town last week. She got back late Friday night. I stayed with her that night and all was good.

Saturday morning we woke up and as I was cooking breakfast she noticed $400 had been taken out of her savings account. After looking at her transactions she figured out both were withdrawals from ATM’s. One at a bar and one at a bank. We guess that her card got skimmed somewhere. She called her bank and closed the card and reported the fraud and everything else.

We started talking about it and i tried to explain to her how easy it is for someone to skim a card and some of the precautions she should take. Things like checking the pumps and card machines and also maybe think about getting a wallet that blocks the cards from being able to be read.

So here is where I messed up. Around Christmas I impulsively bought a flipper zero. I am trying to learn about internet and device security so I thought it would be a cool little tool. I set the thing up with help of some YouTube videos and then copied my work badge and crashed my phone a couple times and since then the thing has been in my bag ever since. I hardly ever touch it, it’s just there.

So me, trying to make a point on how easy it is for someone to scan a card, I grab the stupid thing and place it on my wallet and it picks up one of my cards. She freaked out on me asking why I have it and so on. I tried to explain wanting to learn about security and coding and how that’s not the only thing it can do and all that but all she heard and saw was I have a card skimmer And she assumes I am using it maliciously.

After that I cleaned up from making breakfast and took a nap while she watched tv. Woke up to her telling me she was going shopping with her niece and I needed to leave. So I left and went home. I didn’t hear from her till late last night and our convo was short.

Today I txt her and we got into it again. I tried explaining my side again but she wasn’t hearing it. I even tried to compare it to how even though she carries a pistol with her everywhere, I don’t assume she’s trying to rob or murder people. But “that’s not even close to being the same thing!”

So now I’m single again and I’d bet she prolly assumes I’m the one who stole money from her account. I’m not worried about that though cuz I’m sure once it’s investigated the ATM’s will show exactly who it was.

TL,DR: Now ex girlfriend probably had her card skimmed somewhere, I showed her my flipper device, she freaked out and now I’m single.

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