On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:17:59 +0200, scott wrote:

>>> Unless the store never puts through the orders on the cards they
>>> steal.
>>
>> That's true, but the store would have to be complicit as well, then -
>> or there'd be serious underages in sales and problems with inventory
>> reconciliation.
> 
> If it's a small 1-man-show store then that shouldn't be a problem.
> Otherwise the "criminal" can just put cash in the register to avoid
> detection.
> 
> I always wonder with those chip&pin boxes that everywhere has now (in
> the UK and Germany at least), how do you ever know that the box is
> genuine?  Makes me feel like always deliberately typing in a wrong PIN
> number first time, just to see if it correctly states it was wrong :-)

Yeah, that could work, but I do think that if something like that 
happened where the clerk swiped the card and then asked for cash, that'd 
be a flag in my mind if fraud occurred; unless they delayed before using 
the card info for several months.

Jim

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