Whenever You Insert You Should Give It a Yank First

17 Comments on Whenever You Insert You Should Give It a Yank First

1. OK – so call me paranoid – I always pay for my gas inside the store.

2. I clicked in cuz I thought it was birthday advice for the birthday boy

   /not another birthday thread

3. Thanks Brad

4. I jabbed my card into a pump the other day in N. Wisco and it wouldn’t fit. So I tried again a couple more times and it went through. Thought it was odd and the first thing that came to my mind was a skimmer, so I’ve already been on alert.

5. Thank you–I always wondered how you would know.

6. That was news to me. But it certainly makes sense. I’ll be tugging on mine from now on.

7. Please. I don’t get it. Could some one ‘splain it to me. I see a hand removing a gadget. I get my gas in New Jersey and hand my card to an attendant. I’ve never had a problem.

8. We passed through South Dakota one day last year and stopped at a gas station with a mini store attached. Bought a couple of things and left. 1500 miles and 3 months later, we get a call from Visa asking if we were just in SD using our card. We said no and had to get a new card and new pin number. I’ve been wondering ever since how in the world it happened. Maybe this is how.

9. Seems easy enough to notice.

   All card readers look pretty much the same and none of them look like that cover.

10. “Whenever You Insert You Should Give It a Yank First”

    … words I have always lived by ….

11. Thought this was a Dr. Ruth Westheimer thread at first.

12. We’ve had a rash of that shit out here
    in the islands. It has ALL been chinese
    tourists to date that were caught. They’ve
    also been catching them on buying trips
    with literally STACKs of credit cards to
    purchase high value items.

13. Sent to 500 of my closest friends. Thanks for posting.

14. @Moe Tom: Clerks can skim as well. You’ve been lucky. Handing a card to a clerk is guarantee. I take that back, it is a guarantee if you’re handing it to an honest clerk.

15. For the last year I’ve been paying cash for almost everything. Whew.

16. Looks like a gigolo’s condom.

17. Holy crap, I guess your Vayjay is a box.