christian garcia
May 20, 2023
The authorities alert the oil companies that a new method of fraud is spreading when it comes to paying with “contactless” refueling…
There are many ways that the most hated have tried to carry out in some other establishment as long as they do not pay properly: what if false bills, what if they take advantage of the crowd to get away before paying what they take… Well, then the mind of the fraudulent does not stop thinking of new tricks. Among them is the one that the authorities are communicating right now to all the service stations in our country so that they be careful. And it is that, according to reports, lately several cheeks have achieved refuel their vehicles without actually paying, as it seemed they had done. As?
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The process is as follows: they arrive at the gas station and ask the operators to open the pumps for them to fill the tank. In general, they enter a little less than 50 euros so that when paying they can do it with contactless without the dataphone asking for the security code. When they get to the till, in effect, they take out their cell phone to pay with a card and that’s when play the same sound that the device makes when accepting payment. However, the scam emerges when the sound emitted is not actually produced by the dataphone, but is imitated by the scammer’s mobile thanks to a recording made previously and saved for the occasion.
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Leaning on the fact that he is in a hurry or on the fact that there are more people waiting to pay, upon hearing the sound the customer leaves and it is after a few seconds that the gas station worker realizes that payment has not been made… It’s too late.
Thanks to the cameras they have and all the service stations, in most cases it is possible to hunt down the scammer, but even so there are those who manage to escape leaving the cake there. If you are reading this and know someone who works as a gas station worker, please spread the word.
