Some cool credit cards images:
Newspaper stand accepts credit cards
Image by james.rintamaki
hmmmm, what else will soon accept credit cards?, gumball machines?
Australians hate credit cards
Image by Paul Schreiber
Australians hate credit cards. They either don’t take them at all, have absurd minimums (I’ve seen as high as ) or add surcharges.
What century are we in?
Vintage Las Vegas..Lucky Lady …..item 1..Lucky Supermarkets credit card scam getting worse (December 7, 2011) ..
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Although Lucky’s outbreak is major, it’s by no means the biggest credit card scam consumers have faced. Earlier this year, Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after confessing to stealing millions of credit card and debit card numbers in attacks on customers at T.J. Maxx, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers.
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Lucky Supermarkets credit card scam getting worse
by Don Reisinger December 7, 2011 9:38 AM PST
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Lucky Supermarkets, a chain in California, has been hit hard with a credit card scam.
The company announced the scam in November, saying customers and employees who used the self-checkout kiosks in more than 20 of its 234 stores might have fallen victim to tampered credit card readers. The hackers reportedly used devices called "sniffers" that recorded credit card numbers.
Soon after the information was made public, Lucky Supermarkets, as well as its parent company, Save Mart Supermarkets, said it was unsure how many people might have been affected but urged customers to monitor their accounts.
"We recommend our customers who used a self-checkout lane in the affected stores verify and monitor all credit/debit accounts with their financial institution to ensure everything is in order," the company said in a statement at the time. In subsequent announcements, the company has advised customers who used self-checkout lanes to close their accounts "and seek further advice."
Earlier this week, Save Mart said it had recorded "80 employee and customer reports of either compromised account data or attempts to access account data, with the majority coming over this past weekend." The company said, however, that its checks were not complete and that the number of recorded incidents could rise.
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In a phone conversation with CNET today, a Save Mart representative confirmed that "more than 80 people" have been affected, but she cautioned that the company has yet to arrive at a new figure.
"As things go on, we’re learning more and more," the representative told CNET.
Although Lucky’s outbreak is major, it’s by no means the biggest credit card scam consumers have faced. Earlier this year, Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after confessing to stealing millions of credit card and debit card numbers in attacks on customers at T.J. Maxx, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers.
Gonzalez was accused of using a laptop to find unsecured wireless networks in stores and then installing sniffer programs to collect data. That information was then placed on clone cards and used to withdraw cash from ATMs.
Although Gonzalez’s alleged actions hit customers nationwide, Lucky’s hacks have been centered around Petaluma, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Foster City, and other California towns.
"Lucky Supermarkets sincerely regrets any inconvenience or concern this consumer notice may have caused you," the company wrote to customers in a statement last month. "Your confidence in our company and in your store is very important to us. We take seriously our responsibility to always keep our customers informed of any issues important to them."
Don Reisinger
Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, posting at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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What city and state and/or zip code was this taken? I hear in Gwinnett County, GA, I saw a dasani vending machine that accepts all 4 major credit cards plus the MasterCard paypass.
I think the reason why many automated things that hold cheap items now accept credit cards is because if you didn’t take paper money or coins with you, for any reason, or just prefer cards against cash, you can pay by a much more popular method in the nation. The true adult always takes his wallet with him or her when he goes to a public place, including facilities provided by the city, especially sidewalks, which you were standing on (that means using) when you recorded this image.
One reason why many adults prefer credit cards is because if you were scammed, you might be able to get your money back, unlike cash, checks or food stamps. Once you give in your cash, checks or food stamps, it’s gone. In one unrelated example case, this money back scheme might be useful if you bought something online, and the seller didn’t ship it.
However, I’m not sure if the coin return button works on credit cards, in case the door fails to open. Many cities have an ordinance requiring newsracks have a coin return button, if any city ever realizes, they should amend that code. All the machine does is delete the transaction from the cardholders monthly bill as long as it holds on to the card number when you swipe it if the door wasn’t opened before the button was pressed.
Does this payment expansion satisfy you, leave you equal, or decrease your satisfaction?
Interestingly, Malaysians don’t hate them (at least in restaurants) but they’re so far ahead of the US that their machines won’t read magnetic stripes any more because they’ve all switched to the new cards with embedded microchips!