tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post277042630913567755..comments2008-03-10T17:49:50.460-04:00rsguskindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850061562215316734noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-74892733616951588992008-03-10T14:27:00.000-04:002008-03-10T14:27:00.000-04:00Live in DUMBO, Brooklyn- debit card hit at end of JAN- was used at gas pumps in Palm Beach Fla area. According to Chase, this is a well known scam. Thieves have dummy ATM card, pull a van into the station, put card in for $100, put nozzle in side of van that empties into large gas container, gas is then sold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-41955426159573329492008-01-20T17:46:00.000-05:002008-01-20T17:46:00.000-05:00it could be the people that swipe your credit card.... there are little clip-like tools (you can find them on ebay) that slide into <A HREF="http://www.onlinecheck.com/merchant_accounts/credit_card_processing.html" REL="nofollow">credit card processing</A> terminals, and read each strip with each swipe. so even though you're handing your card over and getting it back literally faster than anyone could read, let alone memorize, your card numbers... the thieves have them anyway. and then they take them home and can embed those numbers/id onto ANY credit card or ANY magnetic strip. it's not as complicated as it sounds, anyone can do it, really, which makes it even more difficult to find the thieves.ashbury88noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-3446173856299449772008-01-14T22:37:00.000-05:002008-01-14T22:37:00.000-05:00all this going on and people still complain about businesses that refuse to take credit cards...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-69918065774535294972008-01-14T21:05:00.000-05:002008-01-14T21:05:00.000-05:00I live in Prospect Park South and was notified on Dec. 24th that I'd had three transactions at gas stations in Arcadia, FLA totally nearly 400$. My bank is dealing with it. I mostly shop along Church and Cortelyou Avenues and haven't been in Park Slope in over a year. Other connections maybe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-39616065425423451102008-01-14T17:29:00.000-05:002008-01-14T17:29:00.000-05:00Live in Park Slope. Chase/MC debit card used over the weekend at gas and Dunkin Donuts locations in Brooklyn, Elmhurst and Astoria. Then they ran up a $1000 tab at a restaurant in Astoria. It was a new card too, so maybe I can triangulate the culprit....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-23201371113311300092008-01-14T16:31:00.000-05:002008-01-14T16:31:00.000-05:00It's probably not just Park Slope. We're in Northern Brooklyn and my credit card got hit in October and my husband's bank card got hit the other week. My fraud was in Missouri and his in Moscow!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-12456048769812014842008-01-14T12:09:00.000-05:002008-01-14T12:09:00.000-05:00I started a post on the Park Slope Message board, for those of us (gasp) non-parents who would like to compare charges and discuss this. I got hit too. The post is here:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40119" REL="nofollow">http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40119</A>RockerGirl77noreply@blogger.com