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    Any time you use the card there's a (very small) risk. Quite a while ago I remember there was a waiter in New York (I think) that had a small magnetic reader hidden in his uniform. He just swiped the card as he walked away from the table to pay the bill to get the magnetic readout, and wrote down the rest in the back. After a lot of people reported fraud, they found the restaurant to be a common vendor between them. If I remember correctly, the restaurant owner let the police search the employee area and found the reader in an open locker.

    After I bought my car last year, I found a reciept in it from the previous owner; it had fallen behind the glove compartment. Name, address, full credit card number, everything. It's downright irresponsible of any company to print that kind of information on a reciept. The customer knows all of that, they don't need it printed out for them.
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    Speaking of illegal activities, I'm in a position to commit massive credit card
    fraud! I work in a cinema, and people often like to book their tickets via C/C
    over the phone - I take their details and punch it in to the system and their
    tickets are reserved. Now, as easy as that'd be to rip someone off, it gets
    better: All those customer details (name, phone number, card details) are
    stored in the computer, and I have the ability to access that data - this is in case
    our card swipe to collect tickets can't read the card. Jackpot!!! There are
    hundreds, maybe thousands of valid details at my disposal - some of those
    details would be quite old, and there goes most of the traceability - if you
    booked a ticket at a cinema over a year ago and suddenly started seeing
    irregularities in your billing, the cinema wouldn't be your first suspect.

    Now obviously I've never done such things, otherwise I wouldn't be seen to be
    "bragging" about it here, but it goes to show that plastic money can be a lot
    less safe than you might realise! Credit cards with very large limits are a bad
    idea anyway, but consider how many honest people like myself are in a position
    to rip you off every day!!!
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