Comments on: Skimming Fraud http://www.security-faqs.com/skimming-fraud.html Internet security questions, answers and reviews Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lee http://www.security-faqs.com/skimming-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-6156 Lee Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:23:03 +0000 http://www.scamtypes.com/skimming-fraud.html#comment-6156 hehe.. I'm 10 years older than you really! Where I live there are a few certain stores that are notorious for trying to give incorrect change, even after mentioning it to them countless times. They also ring up the wrong amounts - deliberately lower - in order to 'cook the books' and pay less taxes. hehe.. I’m 10 years older than you really!

Where I live there are a few certain stores that are notorious for trying to give incorrect change, even after mentioning it to them countless times.

They also ring up the wrong amounts – deliberately lower – in order to ‘cook the books’ and pay less taxes.

]]> By: Jon http://www.security-faqs.com/skimming-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-6155 Jon Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:25:41 +0000 http://www.scamtypes.com/skimming-fraud.html#comment-6155 On the small scale of this, convenience store clerks are probably the most notorious. My dad alway went on and on about this when I was growing up. It got a little annoying to hear him constantly tell me, "if you're not careful, they will steal from you". So, fully ten (or more) years later, I am working really late (or early depending on how you look at it). It was about 3 or 4 am (pst) and I decided that I needed one of these 'red bulls' or some other energy drink. I don't remember if I was just waking up, or had been up all night, but either way, I was a zombie (not haloween style either). I perused the cold bev. section, selected the standard sized red bull energy drink fully expecting to pay the $2.00 USD price those things fetch. I shuffled over to the counter, slid the can towards the cashier, and pulled out the 'wad o' cash' that would be used for payment. I believe I peeled off a 5 or maybe a 10, probably wouldn't have cared if the stupid thing cost ten bucks, I just needed my energy fix. For some reason (and I never do this anymore, shameful as it is) I looked at the LED display to see how much he was charging me. Probably some fluke in the time/space continuum but it happened, I looked at it. $4.85 Dude was gonna charge me five bucks for a red bull. For the small one. Not the new big one. The small one. Like I said, I probably didn't really care, but it just struck me as odd. So odd, that I mused out loud, "five bucks for a red bull?" And I ended the sentence like that. With a question. Raised the eyebrows, you know, the whole bit. I was shocked when he got 'all embarrassed' and said something to the effect of, "oops, I forgot to clear the last persons item off the register before I rang up yours"... nervous chuckle. I just kind of grunted, gave him his $2 and shuffled out to the car. I was a limo driver at the time, so I settled into my town car, and recapped the event in my mind. I may have been tired, but there was no doubt that the way this guy acted when I "called him out" was nothing but guilty. I know that a common skimming practice (esp. @ convenience stores) is to leave the drawer open during cash transactions and not give exact change. A dollar here and a dollar there over the course of the day can lead to a decent 'bonus' over a days work. Esp. if you give change for a ten after receiving a twenty. I was just shocked that it had almost happened to me, and even more shocked that I caught it. anyway, good post jb by the way, I was looking at your 'about me' update. you are 23 and have 3 kids? wow On the small scale of this, convenience store clerks are probably the most notorious. My dad alway went on and on about this when I was growing up. It got a little annoying to hear him constantly tell me, “if you’re not careful, they will steal from you”.

So, fully ten (or more) years later, I am working really late (or early depending on how you look at it). It was about 3 or 4 am (pst) and I decided that I needed one of these ‘red bulls’ or some other energy drink. I don’t remember if I was just waking up, or had been up all night, but either way, I was a zombie (not haloween style either).

I perused the cold bev. section, selected the standard sized red bull energy drink fully expecting to pay the $2.00 USD price those things fetch.

I shuffled over to the counter, slid the can towards the cashier, and pulled out the ‘wad o’ cash’ that would be used for payment.

I believe I peeled off a 5 or maybe a 10, probably wouldn’t have cared if the stupid thing cost ten bucks, I just needed my energy fix.

For some reason (and I never do this anymore, shameful as it is) I looked at the LED display to see how much he was charging me. Probably some fluke in the time/space continuum but it happened, I looked at it.

$4.85

Dude was gonna charge me five bucks for a red bull. For the small one. Not the new big one. The small one.

Like I said, I probably didn’t really care, but it just struck me as odd. So odd, that I mused out loud, “five bucks for a red bull?” And I ended the sentence like that. With a question. Raised the eyebrows, you know, the whole bit.

I was shocked when he got ‘all embarrassed’ and said something to the effect of, “oops, I forgot to clear the last persons item off the register before I rang up yours”… nervous chuckle.

I just kind of grunted, gave him his $2 and shuffled out to the car. I was a limo driver at the time, so I settled into my town car, and recapped the event in my mind. I may have been tired, but there was no doubt that the way this guy acted when I “called him out” was nothing but guilty.

I know that a common skimming practice (esp. @ convenience stores) is to leave the drawer open during cash transactions and not give exact change. A dollar here and a dollar there over the course of the day can lead to a decent ‘bonus’ over a days work. Esp. if you give change for a ten after receiving a twenty. I was just shocked that it had almost happened to me, and even more shocked that I caught it.

anyway, good post

jb

by the way, I was looking at your ‘about me’ update.

you are 23 and have 3 kids?

wow

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