Skimmers
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I am so glad you brought this up. I'm going to be very careful in the future. I heard about this a few days ago on the radio down here in Tampa Bay Area.
With technology comes even more clever criminals. It's what we get for raising a generation of listless, slugs smoking dope on our hard earned money. This should be a wake up call.
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Good help is hard to find these days as well. When my son told the police officer he had reported this gas station to the police about a week ago the officer radioed dispatch and the dispatcher denied any knowledge of my son ever reporting this. Then my son showed the police officer on his cell phone the time and date when he made the call to the police and the officer got on the radio again and with some colorful language told the dispatcher to check the logs to see who the dispatcher was at that time and date and took the report and failed to notify any officers. Now the dispatcher who had denied any knowledge of my son even making this report came back on the radio and said "it was me".
Then you have a Speedway manager who was told three times by my son he needed to check out that pump and who did nothing even though right now there have been many reports about skimmers in Ohio. This manager had little regard for his customers and you just wonder how many other customers besides my son will have their credit card accounts ripped off because of the manager not doing anything.
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I started looking at the pump(s) for signs of tampering too.
and started to see these "seals"
Thanks OBF for the warning!
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They also put cameras on the edge sometimes that record your information.
Everybody has chip cards now though, so use those readers where possible. Or pay mobile, sheetz takes apay at the pump
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They also put cameras on the edge sometimes that record your information.
Everybody has chip cards now though, so use those readers where possible. Or pay mobile, sheetz takes apay at the pump
They also put cameras on the edge sometimes that record your information.
Everybody has chip cards now though, so use those readers where possible. Or pay mobile, sheetz takes apay at the pump
My son was showing me about the chip cards yesterday and how they work as I hadn't heard about them before. Also he was telling me he never pumped gas at the Speedway as he saw right away something was wrong with the pump after he swiped the card and he canceled the transaction immediately but by then it was too late.
It will probably be a constant battle with new technology to stop criminals and criminals finding new ways to beat the technology put in place to stop them.
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I'd take the skimmer off if I found one, they have to go back to retrieve it anyway.
Normally though it's just a matter of not paying attention. Nobody really thinks about that when they're pumping gas they just wanna swipe and go.
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After having my debit number stolen a few years back, I started being a bit more conscious about my usage.
Now I pay for small transactions with cash, larger ones with credit card and I don't use my debit card for a god damn thing other than the ATM and secure online payments to immediately cancel out the balance on my credit card(s).
Haven't had a problem in 4 years now. It's scary out there, watch your finances carefully.
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Is it in Ohio? crap. I have been forgetting to check them when I buy gas.
I wonder if it's a bit of an inside job. How can you tell the station about it,
and they don't do anything?
And the police - that dispatcher at least admitted it was him.
Time to start watching very carefully. All this tech has a flip side, I guess.
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Is it in Ohio? crap. I have been forgetting to check them when I buy gas.
I wonder if it's a bit of an inside job. How can you tell the station about it,
and they don't do anything?
And the police - that dispatcher at least admitted it was him.
Time to start watching very carefully. All this tech has a flip side, I guess.
Is it in Ohio? crap. I have been forgetting to check them when I buy gas.
I wonder if it's a bit of an inside job. How can you tell the station about it,
and they don't do anything?
And the police - that dispatcher at least admitted it was him.
Time to start watching very carefully. All this tech has a flip side, I guess.
My son lives in Butler County and the Speedway with the skimmer was in Fairfield Ohio. We kind of wondered about an inside job as well because his stolen information on his credit card was later used at a Speedway in Indianapolis Indiana.
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Is it in Ohio? crap. I have been forgetting to check them when I buy gas.
I wonder if it's a bit of an inside job. How can you tell the station about it,
and they don't do anything?
And the police - that dispatcher at least admitted it was him.
Time to start watching very carefully. All this tech has a flip side, I guess.
My son lives in Butler County and the Speedway with the skimmer was in Fairfield Ohio. We kind of wondered about an inside job as well because his stolen information on his credit card was later used at a Speedway in Indianapolis Indiana.
My son lives in Butler County and the Speedway with the skimmer was in Fairfield Ohio. We kind of wondered about an inside job as well because his stolen information on his credit card was later used at a Speedway in Indianapolis Indiana.
I also live in Butler County. I know a few weeks back they also found a skimmer in West Chester as well. Heroin and meth are getting pretty bad around here, especially in the Hamilton area; most of the drugs in that area come from Indiana. That could explain your son-in-law's credit card being used in Indianapolis.
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The pumps should be checked regularly during shifts. Then when one is found further investigation via security cameras are protocol.
Paying at the pump is the way to go as most gas stations are prepay. When the credit/debit card is swiped it will be ran through a balance check to make sure it has enough money for a fill up. The usual amount is $125-$150 minimum balance to get gas at the pump.
If you only had lets say $25 in your account it wouldn't let you get gas because you can pump more than that in your tank. The bummer is usually the gas station will put the remaining balance back on the account in 24 hrs.
My point, the skimmers are a very well thought out bunch, they target the ones with $$$
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The pumps should be checked regularly during shifts. Then when one is found further investigation via security cameras are protocol.
Paying at the pump is the way to go as most gas stations are prepay. When the credit/debit card is swiped it will be ran through a balance check to make sure it has enough money for a fill up. The usual amount is $125-$150 minimum balance to get gas at the pump.
If you only had lets say $25 in your account it wouldn't let you get gas because you can pump more than that in your tank. The bummer is usually the gas station will put the remaining balance back on the account in 24 hrs.
My point, the skimmers are a very well thought out bunch, they target the ones with $$$
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Paying at the pump is the way to go as most gas stations are prepay. When the credit/debit card is swiped it will be ran through a balance check to make sure it has enough money for a fill up. The usual amount is $125-$150 minimum balance to get gas at the pump.
If you only had lets say $25 in your account it wouldn't let you get gas because you can pump more than that in your tank. The bummer is usually the gas station will put the remaining balance back on the account in 24 hrs.
90% of gas stations (or banks, it might be bank dependent) don't do this anymore.
Usually you'll see a $1 hold while you're pumping, then when you're done the $1 is replaced with the full amount almost instantly.
It might be bank dependent, but that's how it works for me everywhere.
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"One said:
Paying at the pump is the way to go as most gas stations are prepay. When the credit/debit card is swiped it will be ran through a balance check to make sure it has enough money for a fill up. The usual amount is $125-$150 minimum balance to get gas at the pump.
If you only had lets say $25 in your account it wouldn't let you get gas because you can pump more than that in your tank. The bummer is usually the gas station will put the remaining balance back on the account in 24 hrs.
90% of gas stations (or banks, it might be bank dependent) don't do this anymore.
Usually you'll see a $1 hold while you're pumping, then when you're done the $1 is replaced with the full amount almost instantly.
It might be bank dependent, but that's how it works for me everywhere.
I work for Pilot. This isn't how we do it. Very interesting to me I wonder if it's an Illinios thing. Hum.90% of gas stations (or banks, it might be bank dependent) don't do this anymore.
Usually you'll see a $1 hold while you're pumping, then when you're done the $1 is replaced with the full amount almost instantly.
It might be bank dependent, but that's how it works for me everywhere.
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"One said:
Paying at the pump is the way to go as most gas stations are prepay. When the credit/debit card is swiped it will be ran through a balance check to make sure it has enough money for a fill up. The usual amount is $125-$150 minimum balance to get gas at the pump.
If you only had lets say $25 in your account it wouldn't let you get gas because you can pump more than that in your tank. The bummer is usually the gas station will put the remaining balance back on the account in 24 hrs.
90% of gas stations (or banks, it might be bank dependent) don't do this anymore.
Usually you'll see a $1 hold while you're pumping, then when you're done the $1 is replaced with the full amount almost instantly.
It might be bank dependent, but that's how it works for me everywhere.
I inquired this and you are correct. We changed a while back and I didn't know. As a matter of fact some in upper management didn't know we've changed. Lol90% of gas stations (or banks, it might be bank dependent) don't do this anymore.
Usually you'll see a $1 hold while you're pumping, then when you're done the $1 is replaced with the full amount almost instantly.
It might be bank dependent, but that's how it works for me everywhere.
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The only thing I use a gas card for is my work truck. My company has Fleet cards for us
If I'm in my own car I pay cash.
I only use my debit card to take cash out of the ATM.
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