Subj : credit card by proxy
To : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Nov 24 2020 06:36 pm
Hello!
I had an interesting incident regarding a payment requested by
credit card.
I young lady (est. 25-30yrs old) walks into my shop and asks
if she could use a friend's credit card that she only has
information for. I wasn't quite sure what this would look
like, but after a few minutes of shopping she was ready to
pay. She holds up the her phone and shows me the numbers in a
message on her screen! Duh. At first I thought this was
going to be a new kind of Apple Pay or something. But it was
just information. Technically, what she was doing would be no
different than a phone order (where I can't really tell if
someone is using a card legitimately either).
She elaborated her story by saying that she is tasked to find
some material as a welcome gift for a home she was decorating.
She was *very* attractive, articulate and did not seem dodgy
at all.
I let it go ahead.
She needed to "sign" my copy from the debit/cc machine (it was
basically just a scribble), but then she offered to provide
full info about the card owner +address +phone, etc.
Seemed to be good enough for me.
I treated this as a "card not present"/phone sale. If this
goes south, I'll only be out $78.
I just never encountered someone so open about using someone
else's card.
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