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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Steeljag wrote:bid_time wrote:
How does someone use a gas card without the card itself? I have several gas cards, you have to present the card to be run through the scanner in order to use it. It's not like an Visa card where you can order online. The thief must have been in cahoots with a Shell gas station employee in order to make a purchase without the actual card in hand. I would think it would be pretty easy for Shell to identify what clerk(s) were working at the time of the fraud. Then you have your pool of likely suspect(s). Then time to review the video.
I am also wondering how the card info can be used without the card? Do you not need the card to enter it "swipe" it at the pump?
Anyway, sorry you lost out on your purchase !
One could walk out of the store with the Shell card, keep it any number of weeks, copy it (tape VCR recording material onto a piece of plastic and then use a copy machine to write all the essential data onto the fake card) then return the real card back to the rack, where it is purchased any number of weeks later, and they already have a duplicate of that card data. They only need to wait a while, and check the card balance to see when it has been activated.
I guess the idea is to use up the card as quickly as possible after purchase. . .
