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Default The Stimulus Debit Card Scam (was: I GOT MY $1400 StimulusCheck!)

On 3/27/2021 11:45 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 3/27/2021 2:06 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On 3/27/2021 1:18 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> The pandemic made people weary of handling cash so some stores went to
>>> CC only.

>> None of the stores I've *ever* been in refused cash.

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> And that proves. . . . .nothing
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> https://apnews.com/article/98613f20d...d908ef12107fef
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> Cash-free stores are generating a backlash among some activists and
> liberal-leaning policymakers who say the practice discriminates against
> people like Figueroa, who either lack bank accounts or rely on cash for
> many transactions.
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> Figueroa, an ironworker, had to stand to the side, holding his taco,
> until a sympathetic cashier helped him find another customer willing to
> pay for his meal with a card in exchange for cash.
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> I had money and I couldnt pay, he said.
>



I had that same problem on a bus in London.