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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:29:41 -0400, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Swipe cards on fake reader, and store data on computer. Tell customer
>>> that the machine is having problems, ask for cash instead. As each
>>> card approaches it's exp date over the next year, use it for single
>>> large purchase.
>>>
>>> The store wouldn't have to be complicit, the clerk would just have to
>>> be organized.
>>
>> I don't know, if a customer didn't have cash with them, they'd not buy
>> the product, maybe come back later and complain to staff about the
>> earlier problem. That'd raise flags (once upon a time, I worked retail
>> - customers complain about the damnedest things).
>>
>> Jim
>
> Do it to the first customer every morning when you work at aisle X.
> Check that the machine is always the same, switch routines when the boss
> changes the machine. If all the clerks are in on it, have them do the
> same. Make it a technical problem, not a human problem. By the time the
> machines are replaced, you have the data and move on.
>
> The other choice is one card, completely at random, and never copying
> another again. Wait 6 months to a year (or more) to actually use it.
>
> Sure, the customer gets a little annoyed and maybe watches their
> statements for the next month or two. In a year, they will be watching
> something else that annoyed them if they are that type. But, the price
> is that any detailed analysis would show that all the victims had made a
> purchase at 'S MART' in the last how ever many months.
Yeah, there's always ways to make it more difficult to track down....
Jim
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