On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 06:53:12 -0600, amdx wrote:

On 12/8/2015 7:23 PM, Alex wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 10:13:06 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/8/2015 10:03 AM, True North wrote:

Happened to me last year at this time. Someone was using my debit
card out in the western US.
At that time I was seldom using it except at ATMs but did buy gas on
the edge of town then the local news reported that a number of
similar victims had come to light around the same time. Took just
over a week for the bank to reimburse my $ 400 something dollars.

I've read that the card scanners used at gas pumps, ATM's and other
locations are replaced with some jerk's scanner that looks like it's the
original. His collects all your card info.

A couple weeks before Christmas is *not* a good time for this to happen.

I tried, this morning, to go to my statement at the bank's site to see
if I could
figure out where this may have happened. But, everything and anything
to do with that
card has been removed from my account.

I was really surprised that the bank, Pentagon Federal, would have
caught that
charge. Perhaps their computers are programmed to compare usage times
and realized I
couldn't have used the card here and in California only a couple hours
later.
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Bank of America has declined charges at a local gas station we frequent
often - go figure. On the other hand I have used my card during the
same hour my wife was in another state using her card with the same
number and we were both away from home.

My wife was at a gas station, put her card in, pumped $1 before
noticing the cash price was cheaper. She stopped and bought the rest
with cash. I got a call about the $1 charge,they said thieves sometimes
test a card with a small charge.
Mikek

They do. The last time I had a card used fraudulently, I had left it at Safeway. By
the time I realized I'd left it, it had been used for a $1 charge at a local gas
station. The bank told me the same thing.

The cashier was fired withing the next hour, union or no union.
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Ban idiots, not guns!