Waiters Use Customer's Card While He's Still In The Restaurant

from the didn't-work-too-well... dept

There have been plenty of stories about waiters stealing credit card numbers with skimmer devices, but over in Shanghai, a pair of waiters couldn't even go through that much trouble. After picking up one diner's credit card, they immediately went next door and ordered $3,000 worth of mobile phones. This set off a bit of a well-placed alarm with the credit card company - who called him up to verify the purchase. The waiters were quickly arrested. The article has the understatement of the week: "The pair never intended to be waiters for long." No! Really?

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    This is why you shouldn't use credit cards

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    dorpus, Jun 11th, 2004 @ 12:03pm

    In that part of the world, there is much cultural resistance to the use of credit cards, because people have an image of debt-collecting thugs who come to beat up debtors. Articles like this serve to perpetuate the stereotypes associated with "borrowing money", which is probably not obvious from this article.

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    Big ones...

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    Nonesuch, Jun 11th, 2004 @ 8:58pm

    Those waiters had huge cojones, but not a lot of brains.

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