I was filling up my tank the other day and paid via credit card.
The attendant began to process the transaction, and while distracting me with the usual boring small talk, began to wiggle the phone cable coming out of the credit card reader. The reader returned an error, (since he broke the connection wiggling) and he said we had to swipe the card again, blah blah blah.
I was pretty sure he was going to charge me twice but didn't make a big deal since it was a fairly small amount and it was foolish of me not to have cash on hand anyway. Sure enough, I got home and checked my account online and there were two identical transactions for the same amount within 1 minute of each other.
Be on the lookout for this scam, I'm not sure what you could really do about it, I guess obviously using a credit card at a gas station is a bad idea in the first place.
The attendant began to process the transaction, and while distracting me with the usual boring small talk, began to wiggle the phone cable coming out of the credit card reader. The reader returned an error, (since he broke the connection wiggling) and he said we had to swipe the card again, blah blah blah.
I was pretty sure he was going to charge me twice but didn't make a big deal since it was a fairly small amount and it was foolish of me not to have cash on hand anyway. Sure enough, I got home and checked my account online and there were two identical transactions for the same amount within 1 minute of each other.
Be on the lookout for this scam, I'm not sure what you could really do about it, I guess obviously using a credit card at a gas station is a bad idea in the first place.