Hungary: Curiosities related to Apple Pay

Normally, Apple Pay payments should only be triggered if users actively make payments. Several banks in Hungary have now been debited from individual users who, according to their own statements, have not done so. It was said that amounts of more than 1000 euros were involved. Apparently these cases are connected to the App Store.

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Hundreds of complaints

As Medium Index writes, Apple Pay is Activated 74 times for one customer within 5 minutes – with a total amount of 550,000 forints, which is equivalent to about 1265 euros. “Almost all banks” were affected; there were reports from OTF and Raiffeisen, among others. Some cards related to Apple Pay were blocked. Raiffeisen Bank writes on its website, They are in touch with Appleto resolve this issue. It was a “technical error of an external partner”.

There are now said to be “hundreds of complaints”. The credit card statement says the charge is from Apple in Cork, and the URL for more information is “apple.com/bill”, a Website that contains information about Apple charges And also allows you to issue a chargeback. However, affected users should wait until their banks respond – the problem should be resolved much more easily and quickly than with Apple.

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Block the card if necessary

In addition to Raiffeisen and OTP, customers of Erste Bank, mbH Bank, UniCredit and other institutions also reported. Revolut cards were also affected. It was said that Apple support was sometimes unreachable. Some of the payments appear to be related to App Store subscriptions that users had previously canceled. OTP Bank announced that it was currently analyzing the situation and admitted that it was dealing with a number of improper debits. Some customers asked their bank to block their card on file for Apple Pay.

Recently there have been reports of other problems with Apple Pay. Paid image services are advertised through Google that work at very reasonable prices – for example, one cent. However, a chargeback later occurs and a fairly large amount is debited. Here, too, it is surprising that this is possible – apparently you are approving an unwanted subscription with an Apple Pay payment.

(B.Sc.)