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Article #9412Re: Merchants who ask for ID on credit card purchases
From: Gordon Burditt
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:09
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:09
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>Heh. You think these pimply-faced, minimum-wage punks are putting any >effort at all into verifying that the person presenting the card is in >fact the owner of that card? These droids are simply going through the >motions. They NEVER check signatures, and when they look at my >driver's license their eyes don't even focus. There have been a few "undercover stings" by reporters checking to see how much checking is actually done on ID. The result was "essentially none". Nobody objected to any of these: One guy's credit card identified him as something like "First Baptist Church of San Francisco", and his driver's license had a matching name and a picture of the church building on it. One guy (black, bald, over 300 pounds) presented a credit card with the name "Britney Spears", and the driver's license name match and the picture was a nude photo of a supermodel. One guy presented a credit card with some female name, his driver's license showed a different female name and a picture of someone in a gorilla suit. One guy presented a credit card with the name "John VOID", and his driver's license clearly had VOID stamped over it, although the name was something else entirely. One 10-year old boy, wearing nothing but a diaper and made up to look much younger, presented a credit card to buy beer. His driver's license showed a picture of a senior citizen. He got his beer. For this one, they had the parents (one of whom was also the store owner) watching from outside the store on a video monitor, they were shocked, and all hell broke out afterwards.
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