Credit Card Security

Dutch_12078 wrote:
I'm guessing that you didn't use the card to pay at the pump at Loves. Once you hand your card to a clerk, waitress, etc., it only takes a dishonest one a second to swipe it into a small concealed device, often attached to a smart phone.

I use my debit card as a credit card at the gas pump all the time. Went to a gas station I never before frequented, and used it as a credit card - no pin. The next day, someone was buying gas in Tennessee with it. It could have been a rigged card reader ar something else - I have no idea how the number could have been obtained.

You are douing the only thing possible besides paying cash - being vigilant by checking your account.

Edit: Just saw Dog Folks post - that sums it up for me.