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^^ that ^^
Have you been going to a gas station you weren’t going to before?
Have you been going to a gas station you weren’t going to before?
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Happens all the time in South Florida, also the Orlando area.
The gas station skimmers are amateurs. The most likely place to have your card skimmed is a restaurant or bar. The seedier the bar, the more likely you are to get hit.
Many waitstaff carry skimmers in their aprons and make more money skimming your mag stripe than they do from your generous tip. They sell the skimmer to a counterfeiter who gives them a new skimmer, and they're good to go for another week or so.
The counterfeiters transfer your data to the mag stripe of a stolen card (or sometimes blank credit card stock). They often test it by buying $1-2 worth of gas at a gas station, and if the card hasn't been canceled yet, they sell it to the people who do the actual fraud. They also download and sell the raw data to people elsewhere who encode other card stock. If you see a strange charge on your account from another city, that's what happened. If you see a charge from Alpharetta , GA, it's Nigerians.
Most credit card companies have very strong fraud detection algorithms in place and detect fraud quickly. I've never suffered any actual loss; the credit card companies or merchants have always taken the hit.
The gas station skimmers are amateurs. The most likely place to have your card skimmed is a restaurant or bar. The seedier the bar, the more likely you are to get hit.
Many waitstaff carry skimmers in their aprons and make more money skimming your mag stripe than they do from your generous tip. They sell the skimmer to a counterfeiter who gives them a new skimmer, and they're good to go for another week or so.
The counterfeiters transfer your data to the mag stripe of a stolen card (or sometimes blank credit card stock). They often test it by buying $1-2 worth of gas at a gas station, and if the card hasn't been canceled yet, they sell it to the people who do the actual fraud. They also download and sell the raw data to people elsewhere who encode other card stock. If you see a strange charge on your account from another city, that's what happened. If you see a charge from Alpharetta , GA, it's Nigerians.
Most credit card companies have very strong fraud detection algorithms in place and detect fraud quickly. I've never suffered any actual loss; the credit card companies or merchants have always taken the hit.
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Plastic sucks. Pay cash. Problem solved.
Actually according to the credit card rep it just as easily could of been someone with a mobile scanner on line at the supermarket or even in the back seat of my car and stole my info
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Try Publix.
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I'll take them. If you have enough, I will even come to you to take them off your hands.
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Good idea
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That's so yesterday...but a few still do it. The really stupid ones.
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get a rfid wallet
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