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Folks,

Beware of credit card fraud in this and other areas while dining. When dining at restaurants you may want to reconsider paying with your credit card. My Visa card was duplicated (swiped using a card-reader) and a slew of unauthorized purchases were rang up over the weekend on my account. As you all know, when you pay for your meal, the waiter takes your card away for a period of up to 5 minutes or so to process the transaction.

I regularly use my credit card at Swiss Chalet, Kelsey's, etc when eating out. I will not be doing that any longer unless I accompany the waiter/waitress to the terminal and eyeball them performing the transaction.

The Visa fraud guy told me this morning it is starting to be an epidemic where unscrupulous waiters are getting jobs at restaurants and swiping unsuspecting customer's credit cards with a pocket-sized card reader to make some extra dough. After their shift is done, they go home and program "homemade" credit cards embossed to look just like a Visa or Mastercard or give the said reader to their buddies who make their living on the black market selling duped credit cards.

These credit card companies have got to do more to protect cardholders. Be careful out there!

BuNdO

Last spring I used a credit card to pay for a meal at the Swiss Chalet on Consumers Road here in Whitby.

When the monthly statement arrived I noticed that I was charged exactly $10 more than was on my signed receipt.  I went to Swiss Chalet and spoke to the Manager on duty.  She took my statement to the back room and in about 5 minutes returned with a $10 bill to refund the overcharge.  She told me that they manually post the credit card purchases at the close of business and that an error had been made.

I don't know what to think.

In the future...make sure you eyeball the actual transaction (card swipe). If you don't, and let the waiter take away your card...you have no clue what's going on. Trust me...I know! Once bitten, twice shy.

My moms TD debit card was duplicated last week at an Esso Gas station. If you are going to pay debit at a gas station, do it at the pump!!!

They duplicated her card and took out $2000 cash and two fill up of gas at $75 each

It will take a week or two to get that money back!

Wow.

It's becoming an epidemic. We must be vigilant.

BuNdO