bs and they will never be able to track it anyway...so it won’t work which is what they really want!
How do you think people get double points for gas purchases on a consumer card? Its not like somebody at Discover has a phone book and looks up transaction locations and decides to award the "cash back." Every entity that accepts cards is identified with, in VISA's case, a Merchant Category Code.
These ebt cards have enhanced capabilities over consumer cards, especially in the area of data capture. The MMCs are quite specific and can be blocked by the administrator of the card program. The card is swiped and the processor responds with a decline.