Cell phone shooters,
There is an email circulating in these parts RE sly trick to obtain credit card number from unsuspecting patron. The cashier handles the transaction while talking casually on cell phone. Unnoticed by the customer, cashier snaps a picture of the credit card and sends it to cohort.
OK, at first blush, this sounds like another thing to be worried about. But think about it. Can a cell phone camera produce a readable image in
this sneaky situation - or any situation? ...
Anything is possible. Just keep aware of who's around when you pull out your card and who might happen to be on a phone within five feet. Good scam artists are very good at those things. In the 1980's there were people that would hang around near the pay phones at Port Authority in NYC ( as far as twenty feet away) and write down calling card numbers as the user would punch them in; and no, I wasn't one of them. ; )
Julian
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