The police say someone had their bank accounts emptied after they paid a taxi driver with a debit card. They had wanted to pay with their credit card, but taxi asked for another method because he didn’t want to pay the 4% visa fee.
Police advise that whenever you are asked to use a debit card instead of credit card for whatever reason, enter the wrong PIN. If it is a counterfeit machine it will pretend to process the payment and produce a receipt. Whereas an authentic machine will reject the PIN and request a “try again” message.
Help spread the word, as the police state this type of fraud is becoming increasingly prevalent.
Thank you!!!!
Useful info, thanks
@Fr... eh It would be if all legitimate taxi drivers were not registered, traceable and DBS checked...
I thought I had read this previously on Scooploop. This 'warning' has been floating around the inter..
@Ch... Oh yes!
@Pe... - Thanks, Peter, I knew there would be someone who could say whether true or false! And it l..
@Pe... Thank you for exposing this as yet another ongoing story that repeats on social media sites ..
Shall I delete?
@Se... why? It’s interesting and draws attention to the fact that this story is circulating. And re..
It's worth reading the article supplied by Peter rather than taking the post at face value.
These things do tend to circulate for years on FB, etc, so it's worth leaving as a reminder to not a..
I'm suitably humbled!
(Sorry, Selsey, my last comment was intended to take some of the sting out of the tail. )