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To: Sans-Culotte

I hope you immediately blocked your card and applied for another. Mine got cloned on most likely a gasoline pump two weeks ago. The Visa lady called me within an hour or so of the attempted use of my number. Several large charges wee denied at Wal Mart. I blocked the card right then and am still waiting for the replacement but nobody is running up my charges. I figured it was a gas pump because the gas pumps only have magnetic strips reader and at WM if your card has a chip the machine won’t read chips. The bad charges were denied so I think they only had the strip info. I went back to the gas station which I had only stopped at that once and checked the seals on the pumps. All of them were broken so I suspect the skimmer(s) are an inside job involving an employee. I should have checked the seals when I stopped for gas.


29 posted on 08/15/2017 2:13:03 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus
I hope you immediately blocked your card and applied for another.

The original credit card company canceled the two cards I had with them and issued new ones.

30 posted on 08/15/2017 2:17:24 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: arthurus

I worry about the gas station skimmers. How can you tell? Thank you.


35 posted on 08/15/2017 2:26:02 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: arthurus

I’ve seen the Seals on Gas Pumps, but couldn’t a Hacker just make a fake Seal and put it on the Pump after they are finished tampering with it?

Just a thought.


52 posted on 08/15/2017 4:28:32 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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