Posted on 08/13/2013 7:43:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
NEWARK (CBS SF) A woman who dined at a Newark seafood restaurant on her birthday and was handed the wrong credit card by the waitress at the end of her meal was arrested after she took the card and headed to a nearby mall on Sunday evening, police said.
Jheline Demesa, 22, of San Leandro, ate dinner at Rays Crab Shack at 5989 Mowry Ave., where the waitress mistakenly gave her a credit card from an adjacent table, police said.
Instead of returning the card, Demesa allegedly left the restaurant with it, police said.
The real cardholder tried to cancel the credit card a short time later but learned that transactions had been made on it at the NewPark Mall across the street, Newark police Cmdr. Mike Carroll said.
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The mall isn't off the hook either for doing credit card transactions without following basic procedures: matching signatures, asking for ID on larger transactions, etc.
Back in the early 1980s, I worked for a drugstore chain as a cashier/manager trainee. Our average transaction size was maybe $40 or so. It was not only SOP to check the signature and ID, but we additionally had to look up the card to make sure it wasn't listed in a do not accept/take possession bulletin which came out in paper format about every week or so and was placed at every register.
If the transaction was over $100, we had to have it called in as well. I kid you not. This was a high volume store about 40 miles east of downtown LA.
Bottom line, I never let it out of sight.
vaudine
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Oh-oh - looks like I’m too late to the party ;-)
“This is why I never pay with a credit card in a restaurant anymore, unless its at the cash register.”
I’m ready to start doing this in restaurants where I can’t see and follow my credit card being taken to the cashier.
Basically every adult member of our family have had credit fraud after eating in a restaurant and handing it to a wait person and not being able to watch where it went.
If she paid for the crab shack meal with the other patron’s credit card it may have been the only time in her life when she left a tip. Then again...
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