East Bay Woman Accused Of Credit Card Fraud After Restaurant Mix Up

CBS News ^ | 8-13-13

[Vigilanteman]

Exactly. And very easy to locate as well since the authorities just need to contact her credit card company to get the particulars.

The mall isn't off the hook either for doing credit card transactions without following basic procedures: matching signatures, asking for ID on larger transactions, etc.

Back in the early 1980s, I worked for a drugstore chain as a cashier/manager trainee. Our average transaction size was maybe $40 or so. It was not only SOP to check the signature and ID, but we additionally had to look up the card to make sure it wasn't listed in a do not accept/take possession bulletin which came out in paper format about every week or so and was placed at every register.

If the transaction was over $100, we had to have it called in as well. I kid you not. This was a high volume store about 40 miles east of downtown LA.

[vaudine]

Right!. Last December, at The Irish Pub in Destin, FL, I embarrassed the heck out of our daughter, when I asked the waiter where he was going to swipe the card. It was out of sight, so I got up and walked there with him--told him I never let it out of my sight. Daughter was Sooooo embarrassed, but I told her to get over it.

Bottom line, I never let it out of sight.

vaudine

[rockrr]

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Oh-oh - looks like I’m too late to the party ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

“This is why I never pay with a credit card in a restaurant anymore, unless it’s at the cash register.”

I’m ready to start doing this in restaurants where I can’t see and follow my credit card being taken to the cashier.

Basically every adult member of our family have had credit fraud after eating in a restaurant and handing it to a wait person and not being able to watch where it went.

[Two Kids' Dad]

If she paid for the crab shack meal with the other patron’s credit card it may have been the only time in her life when she left a tip. Then again...