Stolen Gas Gift Card
We often purchase Shell Gas Gift Cards from Kroger to get the 4x fuel points (not essential to the story), but we just learned a hard lesson which I will share. At a Shell station in MS I tried to ...
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MrWizard wrote:
Maybe by going to the Kroger website and putting in the card number ?
But since the op is in Virginia the crooked user got the card numbers online? Unless of course the op bought the cards in Calif and didn't use then until now ?
I don't think I would wait six months to use a gas gift card
It would be used at my next fill up
There are two lessons in this story,
Be careful what you buy, and use it immediately,
Better to save the cash, instead of saving the card
For later use
We bought the gift cards at Kroger on the rack where all cards are kept. A thief would merely walk up to the rack, copy down numbers to any unprotected gift card without a concealed PIN, also copy the 800 number for checking balances, wait a week or 2, when a real customer (like me) purchases the card, the 800 number will report a balance (in this case $100). Then the thief has the card number and goes on a flippin spending spree until he spends the $100.
Moral is: make sure any gift card you purchase has a concealed PIN before purchasing. This Shell card had no such PIN.
