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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
About buying stuff on other people's credit cards, I've never understood how people could do that if they didn't physically have the card (ie just memorized the number or wrote it down).
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There was a couple in Bowie (MD) that made fraudulent credit cards from their home. I'm not sure how they got the numbers, but they did have a magnetic strip programmer, and they would put legitimate card information onto a magnetic strip and then put that strip on the back of credit cards that hadn't been activated and the like. So it appeared to be a real card, but the number on the strip didn't match up with the number on the front.
When I worked in retail our main problem was with fake checks. By the time I left the check acceptance policy was pretty tough because we sold a lot of expensive gear and we were getting returned checks left and right.