The Cashback Scam

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Great excitement locally as a few people have been caught by it - personally no first hand experience.

Pay by credit or debit card, usually at a supermarket, examine the receipt (most don't) and find a cashback on it which you neither requested or received.
Usually the cashier will re-issue.

Apparently the cashback is collected by the person behind you who is in collusion with the cashier.

I'm surprised that one of the supermarkets mentioned, sainsburys, aren't sufficiently vigilantly managed to stop it at source.

It could happen in any public till, but I'll be extra wary when I pay by card in any very busy shop and check BEFORE I leave.
 
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raggy said:
I realy wish people would actualy stop and think befor posting we do not need to know about every fake scam story.

GOOGLE IT then post.
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But it IS true. I take it you don't believe the virus that can actually cause your computer to set on fire either? Or the text message you can get that costs you £300 just by reading it? Or that father Christmas is actually a Mujahideen infiltrator planting chimney bombs?

You are so naive.
 
But it is true!! Now!

Perhaps the email has given people the idea, but my brother actually had this happen to him in Sainsburys in Cardiff.
Fortunately he checked his receipt before leaving the checkout area ( a life time in retail banking) and found there as a £50 cashback on it. When he drew the cashier's attention to it he was told they couldn't delete it and was offered £50 cash. He refused because naturally he didn't want to pay cash advance charges on his credit card.
Checkout girl called supervisor who then with fairly bad grace voided the whole transaction and put the whole (rather large) order through again.
Brother was not impressed by the attitude. It was almost like he was being blamed for the delay it caused him and of course the other customers behind him.
Course, it may have been just a mistake...
 
Snopes is a godsend to people, like who can't abide the drivel that gets sent round the Internet by well-intentioned but ultimately gullible people as a warning or just: "AIRCRAFT HIT LIGHTNING !!!!!!!" because they can't be bothered to check the facts.

The point us though that this Snopes article does not say anything about the UK cashback scheme which IS initiated by the cashier. It seems plausible to me (perhaps someone who has experience could comment) I just suspect it's not that widespread.
 
Hamma said:
Snopes is a godsend to people, like who can't abide the drivel that gets sent round the Internet by well-intentioned but ultimately gullible people as a warning or just: "AIRCRAFT HIT LIGHTNING !!!!!!!" because they can't be bothered to check the facts.

The point us though that this Snopes article does not say anything about the UK cashback scheme which IS initiated by the cashier. It seems plausible to me (perhaps someone who has experience could comment) I just suspect it's not that widespread.
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SEE/LOOK at the report from LIZZIE-B

Peter
 
Go to the Lounge or Scuttlebutt

raggy said:
I realy wish people would actualy stop and think befor posting we do not need to know about every fake scam story.......
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Get a life all of you!!!

If you just want to chat then go to the Lounge or Scuttlebutt.

Please keep this forum for interesting topics for liveaboards.
 
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