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I once gave my card to a waiter.
by mynameishere 16y ago
I once gave my card to a waiter.
- hugh3 16y agoA waiter stealing credit card numbers has a good chance of being caught eventually. I assume the credit card companies do some basic data mining on their stolen card database, and if card numbers start getting stolen shortly after dining at a particular establishment then they'll track this down. I googled "waiter stealing credit card numbers" and here's an example from today's news of some folks who got caught: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0510/739156.html http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0510/739156.html On the other hand if you have a radio scanner and are picking up numbers going over the air from tow truck companies there's no traceable link between you and anything in the database.
- mseebach 16y agoNo, but there'd be a link to tow-truck companies in your area, and perhaps their not-exactly-PCI-compliant handling of credit-card numbers would be exposed.
- spohlenz 16y agoWho says it would be in your area though? You could travel the country and probably find hundreds of instances of this sort of thing happening.
- gbhn 16y agoMy practice is to give my card to anyone who asks for it when I'm in a frame of mind to expect someone to do so (after I finish eating at a restaurant, for instance). Observation suggests basically everyone follows the same policy.
- patio11 16y agoThree times in my life, I wrote up all the information needed to debit every last penny in my bank account and handed it to someone I had never met. Then I stopped using checks.
- rms 16y agoWhen I worked at Radioshack, I had access to the database of receipts with the credit card information stored on them.