Today there was yet another post on Park Slope Parents about credit card fraud. Yet another gas station in Florida.
What is it about gas stations in Florida.
I am wondering if this is really is a random problem or if the problem can be traced to certain merchants in Park Slope.
Is there an investigation in process and who is doing it — the bank or the 78th precinct? Anyone know?
I don’t think it’s the ATMs. I’ve never used one domestically outside my bank on Seventh Ave.
And yet on three days last November, someone used a card with my information in the Murphy gas station in Kissimme, Fla., six times for a total theft of some $450.
ATT UniCard (Citi, Mastercard) finally called to ask if I was filling up an enormous tank that often in the very same city.
They took the loss but canceled the card, so I had to call all the businesses who bill my card with my new information. A pain.
Who’s shooting credit-card numbers to a pal in Florida?
My guess, since I use my card most often locally, is it’s someone with access to plastic receipts at a Slope shop. Someone down there creates cards with the numbers. No signature is required at gas-station pumps, so the culprit may be either filling up a truck or may be Murphy himself or whoever’s the owner of the filling station.
I shared my theory with ATT Uni but they weren’t interested. Easier to eat the loss and keep doing business as usual.
But for the customer who’s inconvenienced, a time-consuming nuisance.
I experienced some credit card fraud. I was told by Chase bank not to use those ATM machines in delis and bodegas. It’s not necessarily that people use them in Florida or Buenos Aires or wherever, but the numbers are sold there – I think there’s some way they can figure out the pin numbers. So don’t use those ATM machines – unless in a bank or a reputable store – just my two cents