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From: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Glenn C. Scott)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Credit card carbons ("No, you can't have them")
Message-ID: <2616@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 15:27:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 15:27:22 1986
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Reply-To: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Glenn C. Scott)
Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica
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Keywords: Credit Cards, Vehicle License Plates

>>> Some crooked gas stations run through extra copies of the card while the
>>> customer isn't looking, and filling in a charge later; forging the signature
>>> in the process.

>> This actually happened to me last year.  ...  Three different slips within
>> a period of several weeks were forged.  The amount in each was around $20 to
>> $25, when the actual amount of purchase was $10 to $12.

>I thought it was mandatory for gas station attendants to write in the license
>plate number on ALL charge slips. In case of fraud, the fake number would be a
>give-away. Or in the case of a stolen card, the number would then be traced to
>the person who stole it.

But if they write your license number on the slip with the carbons still inside
they have a copy of your license number as well.