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I’m curious how often this sort of scam exists in places like Oregon where you’re required to have an attendant at the gas station pump for you, and are therefo
by noodlesUK 7y ago
I’m curious how often this sort of scam exists in places like Oregon where you’re required to have an attendant at the gas station pump for you, and are therefore unlikely to get unfettered access to the pumps. Does anyone have any data for that kind of thing?
As an aside, I’ve always thought that parking meters were the ideal target for this kind of attack. Nobody that I’ve seen has ever checked for skimmers when using a parking meter, and they all tend to look different anyway.
- kencausey 7y agoIn that situation is it still a pump that accepts cards but the attendant is operating it?
- CamperBob2 7y agoHeck, for that matter, just put up a bogus parking meter in a space that didn't have one to begin with. It's hard to believe that no one has ever tried that.
- Nextgrid 7y agoBest of all, nobody is going to question the transactions.
- tzs 7y agoThe Simpsons, Season 24 Episode 10, "A Test Before Trying" [1], has Homer try that. > Meanwhile, Mr. Burns raises the price of electricity. As a result, Homer throws his domestic appliances in the dump, where he finds a parking meter that still functions. He decides to set it up at parking spaces around Springfield, moving to another as soon as someone pays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Test_Before_Trying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Test_Before_Trying
- chrisseaton 7y agoDo you enter your PIN at a parking meter? I’ve never seen one that wasn’t contactless. You’d have to spending a hell of a lot on parking to have to use your PIN!
- Marsymars 7y agoWhy don't gas stations I go to ever support contactless? My gas tank isn't large enough to even go over my contactless limit.
- reaperducer 7y agoExxon had contactless back in the 90's with a special keychain. I don't know if it still does. When I go to 76 stations, there is an icon for something that looks contactless, but doesn't seem to do anything, and there's no instructions on the pump.
- BoorishBears 7y agoEven in "the middle of nowhere" (in the mountains, ~100 mi. to the nearest city with pop. > 100k), I've found gas stations that have digital pumps usually support Apple Pay (some still use analog pumps that require you to tell them the total after you pump, even some of those support contactless payment, but much less often)
- mrpippy 7y agoCredit card companies aren't requiring it until October 2020 (after this point, the retailer will be held responsible for fraud if they don't have contactless readers installed) https://business.hughes.com/resources/blog/outdoor-emv-liability-shift-train-wreck-we-will-all-see-coming https://business.hughes.com/resources/blog/outdoor-emv-liabi...
- nulbyte 7y agoEMV is not synonymous with contactless, though that feature is part of most, if not all, EMV terminals. Nonetheless, it is optional. The liability shift requires you support EMV, but doesn't require you support contactless.
- anarcticpuffin 7y agoI had my credit card scammed after using a full service gas station in New Jersey (by law there's no self-serve). They took my card inside the store to run it. There's no way to know they're going to do that when you pull into a new gas station.
- tway009 7y agoSpeaking of puffins... I've had my credit card skimmed in Iceland, at a pretty remote gas station on the ring road.