Scam Alert!

[Sauer Grapes]

Waiters and waitresses have been doing this scam for a long time. Fortunately it's only a few bad apples that do it, but they have the opportunity since you hand them your card and they take it out of your sight. It's also not uncommon for them to "skim" the card by scanning it into a reader so that they can either make a hard copy or sell the data to someone to make a hard copy.

My buddy had that happen to him at a walmart in Georgia. Thing is, since it wasn't taken out of his sight, the cashier acted like the first scan didn't work (which was the skimmer probably) and then scanned it for real. His card was used in Mexico City at a liquor store a couple days later. It's amazing how connected these theft rings are.