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Burger King employee caught taking pictures of customer's debit card: report [OH]
www.fox5dc.com ^ | 09-30-2019 | Staff

Posted on 09/30/2019 10:07:37 AM PDT by Red Badger

Edited on 09/30/2019 11:17:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Some Burger King customers may have been getting an unwanted side of identity theft.

A woman claims that she witnessed one of the fast-food chain

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: burgerking; donteatthere; ecoli; hepatitis; heroin; methamphetamine
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I never, ever, ever use my debit card in public. The ATM only......so many friends and neighbors in our area have been scammed especially at gas stations. We have a credit card I charge on......then come home and pay it off.....it’s not worth putting out such private info like a PIN especially nowadays.


21 posted on 09/30/2019 10:38:38 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: Red Badger

I use white out on my debit card over the 3 digit code. If I hand the card over and it returns with the white out scratched off then I know. hasn’t happened yet but...


22 posted on 09/30/2019 10:39:56 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: VastRWCon

Good idea.


23 posted on 09/30/2019 10:45:31 AM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Conserv

Good reason to use CREDIT, not DEBIT cards. Over the decades, I had many of my sailors experience theft of their debit card info by employees of stores/restaurants they shopped at. Their first tip that something was wrong was usually a bounced check or failed automatic transfer. Checking and/or savings accounts were empty, and it was a long process to work with the bank to restore the false charges, and work with each vendor who they had bounced a payment with. In some cases, they were unable to recover all of the money or fees. After seeing it happen to so many people, I don’t even have debit cards.

Credit cards on the other hand, usually catch fraud right away and reversing the charges is quick and easy. Of course, this is because the thief is stealing THEIR money, not yours.


24 posted on 09/30/2019 10:53:30 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: Red Badger

I was just left some money from a life in insurance policy via a uncle who passed away.

The claims woman who sounded like she was from India was pressuring me into direct deposit and wanted my banking info.

Not a chance honey.

Paper check in 8-10 days is fine.


25 posted on 09/30/2019 11:04:24 AM PDT by setter
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To: VastRWCon

Interesting


26 posted on 09/30/2019 11:06:46 AM PDT by Conserv ( b)
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To: setter

What a coincidence!

I just got a e-mail from a long lost relative in Nigeria!.............


27 posted on 09/30/2019 11:06:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Bob434
Always, always, Always check your statements-

Preach it, Brother!

I once found an unauthorized charge for >$5000.00 … had to sign paperwork, but was not held liable for it.

28 posted on 09/30/2019 11:07:13 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ETCM
Credit cards on the other hand, usually catch fraud right away ...
I live in western NY - got a phone call a few years ago that someone was trying to use my credit card in Toronto, Canada.
Told them I hadn't been there in 20 years so they nixed the transaction, cancelled the card, and had new ones out to me in 2 days.
Now that's service.
29 posted on 09/30/2019 11:11:01 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Ken H
I get an instant email whenever my card is used. Same for every bank transaction.

Same here.

30 posted on 09/30/2019 11:21:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: ETCM

Yes, credit cards don’t give any hassle when a charge needs to be reversed.

Just recently I was in post office buying 6 stamps. The damn machine didn’t take cash, so I had to use my credit card. I thought I was done.

However, the lady behind me said. Always, ALWAYS make sure you log off or someone else can pay for postage with your card. Then she said she logged off for me.

I thanked her and walked off. Little did I know that she charged the cost of mailing her package to my card($13.40). Found out what she did when I went online to look at my recent charges.

It was promptly reversed. Guess the lady thought her advice was worth something. lol

People are such work.


31 posted on 09/30/2019 11:26:31 AM PDT by Conserv ( b)
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To: Red Badger

Last year someone tried to use my card to purchase over $250 parts at O’reilly Auto Parts online. Alert contacted me— had to close out that account# and issue another. Thieves and scammers deserve all the rotten karma in multiples.


32 posted on 09/30/2019 11:34:13 AM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: Red Badger

I talked with an American Express fraud expert. According to her, the vast majority of fraudulent activity comes when you hand your card to someone else. She mentioned wait staff particularly, but anytime the card is out of your control, you are at risk.

I asked about transactions going back and forth over the internet, and she said those were a small percentage, the real problem is giving someone else your card. My wife and I have each had a couple of incidents over the years where we got fraudulent charges on our cards, and they were all traced back to us giving our card to someone to pay for something.


33 posted on 09/30/2019 12:30:09 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Red Badger

Last I heard, criminals were paying $500 per 10 of such photographed credit cards, front and back.


34 posted on 09/30/2019 12:50:08 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Red Badger

Many of those places have been actively hiring drug addicted and drug dealing criminals for years, and they are extremely unsanitary. The managers are in on it, too.


35 posted on 09/30/2019 1:01:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: wardaddy
He was a flambeau

Where's Father Brown when ya need him???

36 posted on 09/30/2019 1:03:44 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: NFHale

Cash only here too. For most daily expenses, anyway. We do use the debit for gas. We don’t own credit cards. Not a fan of debt.


37 posted on 09/30/2019 3:03:52 PM PDT by brewer1516
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To: Red Badger

If we only paid these workers $15/$20/$25 an hour they wouldn’t have to resort to crime. /s


38 posted on 09/30/2019 5:15:10 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Islamic terrorism it's "science")
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To: Ken H

that sounds liek a cool deal- one of our banks will call us whenever there is a large purchase to make sure it’s us- the other bank- not so much-


39 posted on 09/30/2019 9:13:44 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: brewer1516

“...We don’t own credit cards. Not a fan of debt....”

Yeah, I learned that lesson a long time ago. Learned to live without them real fast.

Life is better, maybe less convenient, but definitely better...


40 posted on 10/01/2019 4:37:18 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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