Another Scam

[Curley Cole]

My wife just emailed this to me:

OMG!  YES!  THIS IS TRUE!  It happened to me at Wal-Mart (Supercenter store #1279, 10411 N Freeway 45, Houston, TX 77037) a month ago.  I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags.  I saw a cash-back of $40.  I told her I didn't request a cash back & to delete it.  She said I'd have to take the $40 because she couldn't delete it.  I told her to call a supervisor.  Supervisor came & said I'd have to take it.  I said NO!  Taking the $40 would be a cash advance against my Discover & I wasn't paying interest on a cash advance!!!!!  If they couldn't delete it then they would have to delete the whole order.  So the supervisor had the cashier delete the whole order & re-scan everything!  The second time I looked at the electronic pad before I signed & a cash-back of $20 popped up.  At that point I told the cashier & she deleted it.  The total came out right.  The cashier agreed that the electronic pad must be defective.  Obviously the cashier knew the electronic pad was defective because she NEVER offered me the $40 at the beginning.  Can you imagine how many people went through before me & at the end of her shift how much money she pocketed?

Just to alert everyone. My co worker went to Milford DE Walmart last week. She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her along and didn't give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her. My co worker didn't look at her receipt until later that night. The receipt showed that she asked for $20 cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK. My co worker called Walmart who investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. There is a scam going on. The cashier will ask for cash back and hand it to her friend who is the next person in line.  Please, Please, please check your receipts right away when using debit cards. The store has the cashier under investigation now. We can only pray that she is caught very soon.

I am adding to this.  My husband and I were in WalMart North Salisbury and paying with credit card when my husband went to sign the credit card signer he just happen to notice there was a $20 cash back added.  He told the cashier that he did not ask nor want cash back and she said this machine has been messing up and she canceled it.  We really didn't think anything of it until we read this email.  Please be aware

Had a similar event take place to me at a local Kmart....

curley

[FriscoCounty]

Hey Curley,
This doesn't have anything to do with CAS and anyway it ain't true to begin with.  I suggest you pull it.
Frisco County

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/cashback.asp

[Curley Cole]

Frisco,

1. ya, I saw on the SASS page that snoopy said it ain't so, but if you went on to read the end of it, well, it almost did happen to me (so try to snoopy that one) if I hadn't caught it at the cash register  so thought would pass it along.

2. I have seen pages of stuff posted that "dont have anything to do withCAS" on the wires, that are just informational, fun or what have you...

So, with that I don't plan to pull it anytime soon. Sorry you didn't like the information. You might enjoy the post on the price of gold.

thanks anyway
curley

[Camille Eonich]

Keep a watch on your back.... 

[Davey Ray]

From what I've heard you don't necessarily want to believe everything you read on snopes either...

[GunClick Rick]

Sort of like the Blair/Holt tax your gun theories goin around.Could they do it?Hell yes,best to be ahead of the game just in case.The LEOs are even gettin egdy about that one..Snopes now say's it true,who knows!!??

[FriscoCounty]

   Problem is that I don't know of any businesses that will give cash change on credit card or signature debit purchases - their processing fee is a percentage of the total charge.  They do allow change on pin based debit cards - merchant fees are capped on these transactions.

[GunClick Rick]

Guess i better watch that ATM too.

[Rafe Covington]

Hey Curley,
This doesn't have anything to do with CAS and anyway it ain't true to begin with.  I suggest you pull it.
Frisco County

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/cashback.asp

If Snopes said. night was dark and daytime light I would not believe them.

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