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Post by **faninor** » 12/7/2005, 6:39 pm

There's a slight chance that it was Office Max. I went to both in the same day. This was over 2 years ago now so I'm not certain anymore...

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 12/8/2005, 2:16 am

I checked someone's signiture for the first time today at work, just because I was thinking about that prank.

Then I realized, if you managed to fraud someone out of a Visa, would YOU go buy a $3 mocha with it?

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/8/2005, 6:02 am

People sometimes try cards for small purchases first to check they work ok before going out on mega spending sprees. So you should ALWAYS check.

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 12/8/2005, 7:37 am

That's so weird, I've NEVER been checked. Honestly I didn't even know how it was done or what the use of the signature was.

superrgirll · Post by **superrgirll** » 12/8/2005, 8:38 am

if more people checked signatures, maybe the people who stole my card wouldn't have been able to max it out :cry:

Post by **faninor** » 12/8/2005, 3:05 pm

An update on this: I just bought something from Fred Meyer's and used the self check-out (something from the electronics section... I didn't see any checkers in electronics and I didn't want to wait around, so I just walked over to the self check-out area, setting off a couple alarms along the way).

I paid with credit card, and there wasn't even an electronic pad to sign on. It was like buying online, nobody else saw my card and I didn't have to sign.

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 12/8/2005, 4:42 pm

People don't care anymore. I should really get into this credit card fraud business. Apparently its a piece of cake.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 12/8/2005, 8:55 pm

Hmmm. This could be beneficial for paying for those pesky university bills.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 12/8/2005, 9:06 pm

Yeah. And admitting your plan on a public message board is a great start.

half jill · Post by **half jill** » 12/8/2005, 9:06 pm

i never check credit cards.. hm

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 12/8/2005, 9:08 pm

I always check them. But then I kinda have to. Being a bank teller and all.

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 12/8/2005, 9:20 pm

I saw someone use a credit card at work once. Then I probably burned myself, I can't remember.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 12/8/2005, 9:38 pm

Axtech wrote:Yeah. And admitting your plan on a public message board is a great start.

You know it. Nobody ever suspects the person foolish enough to admit it.

thirdhour · Post by **thirdhour** » 12/8/2005, 10:10 pm

Axtech wrote:I always check them. But then I kinda have to. Being a bank teller and all.

Fraud-er: "From this account. That is mine. It is my account. That has money in it. Yes. Uh-huh. I would like $4000 in cash please."
Robski: "Alright sir. Please just sign this useless piece of paper, and for the LOVE OF GOD, don't let me see your card or any other proof of your real signature!"

clumsychild_ · Post by **clumsychild_** » 12/8/2005, 10:13 pm

joe_canadian wrote:I saw someone use a credit card at work once. Then I probably burned myself, I can't remember.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 12/8/2005, 11:44 pm

i once had a man with a credit card that said "ask to see id" on the back. so i asked for his id, and still didnt check it against the signature. :lol:

but he was impressed nonetheless.

in europe credit cards are starting to have pin numbers like debit cards. that's a great safety feature i think. not foolproof, but a step up.

you know, i know they tell people to check sigs at zellers becuase someone got caught for credit card fraud once at our store...but i wouldnt know what to do if the signatures didn't match. do you take away the card? void the purchase? what? i dont know. crazy. i've done transactions of over $1000, and never checked.

i am a detriment to public security.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/9/2005, 12:47 pm

Woo Fred Meyer :love:

in France they've been doing PIN based transactions for years, and they're introducing it here now - most transactions I do now I enter my PIN rather than signing. I can't remember the figures now, but it's meant to decrease fraud using stolen cards by a lot. There's still all kinds of other frauds though - like intercepting new cards and PINs or making up card numbers to use online.

I was once looking at the logs from a live credit card system and saw evidence of someone with a card number generator just firing off transactions into the system in the hope that they'd find a valid one that they could use. I'm not sure if they found out who was doing it though.

Post by **faninor** » 12/9/2005, 1:06 pm

When I get those emails that pretend to be from Paypal and send you to a random site that asks you for your credit card info, I sometimes put phony numbers in there.

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 12/9/2005, 2:28 pm

You'd better not be putting my number in there young man :evil:

_old_lady_peace · Post by **_old_lady_peace** » 12/9/2005, 6:13 pm

JH: Are the children sold separately?

FAO: We don't sell children at FAO Schwarz.

JH: I'm sorry. You don't...?

FAO: No. It's against the law to do that.

JH: Not even a la carte?

HAHAHAHAHA that's the best part! woah. hahahahaha.