On 1/6/2016 3:29 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-01-06 11:17 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I remember years ago there was a restaurant in Germantown, TN that
>> nearly went out of business due to credit card theft. I'm hazy on the
>> details now but apparently some crooks got a long-term (9 years?)
>> employee to use a portable card reader to swipe/scan the cards customers
>> handed to her when they were paying for their meals. IIRC all she got
>> out of the deal were some stupid coupons and, ultimately, jail time. I
>> think she did give up the names of the other people involved. The
>> restaurant really took a hit, all because of a few stupid criminal
>> minded people.
>
> I posted recently about how I got double billed on my Visa at restaurant
> in this area. Given their initial response to Visa, that they were new
> and thought it had not gone through so they did it again excuse, and
> then their lack of follow up after Visa told them to issue a credit...
> which never happened.... I never went back. I warned other people about
> it. I have also been told by friends and relatives about places where
> they ran into problems after using their cards. I never patronized
> those places either. I figure that if they screwed my friends and family
> they would do the same to me.
>
> If I ran the world..... anyone who got caught in any part of a credit
> card scam would have to pay restitution, would not be allowed to own or
> use credit or debit cards and would not be allowed to conduct any
> transactions involving credit or debit cards... for a minimum of five
> years. Since these people would have been working in service or retail,
> they would be pretty well screwed for employment for the duration. Any
> business that was involved would be banned from using credit cards and
> debit forever.
>
It was not this restaurants' fault they had a gullible employee who
somehow thought she'd "benefit" by giving these so-called friends of
hers access to customer credit cards. She was obviously stupid. She
wound up in jail. So did the accomplices after she told the cops how to
find them.

It was not the fault of the restaurant. But it did take a while for
customers to go back after the articles hit the news. This was around
2006 or so. I don't remember the name of the restaurant. I have no
idea if they managed to stay still open. I just read they had problems
because people no longer trusted dining there.

Jill