Trust in me. Just in me.

[Mr Hero]

Once again I get an SC who tried to pay with a CC not matching his ID. Woman's name on the CC, man's name on the ID. He goes on about how horrible our policy is that we should accept the card because last names match. And his parting words to us is that we should be more trusting of our customers.

The last matching last names? Smith

[CyberLurch]

Well, in his tiny, tiny world, there is only one 'Mr. Smith'. And 'trusting customers' is the fast track to bankruptcy.

[Kanalah]

Was he going by John Smith?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Was he going by John Smith?

Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith. He has an O-level in camel hygiene and can count up to 4.

[MoonCat]

Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith. He has an O-level in camel hygiene and can count up to 4.

Isn't he the one who shot himself into third place? Or was that Nigel Incubator Jones?

[workerbee222]

Hardly anyone questions any more.

My boss has handed me his credit card a couple times to run errands for him. I feel awkward handing over his card, but I've never been challenged. And even though I'm post-menopausal, no one's ever mistaken me for a "David."

[mhkohne]

Hardly anyone questions any more.

My boss has handed me his credit card a couple times to run errands for him. I feel awkward handing over his card, but I've never been challenged. And even though I'm post-menopausal, no one's ever mistaken me for a "David."

When I worked at a place that had card reading/writing equipment (we built gas pumps including readers in the pump head and had some specialty products for fleet operations), I had a co-worker who didn't want to pay his bank's charge for a second debit card. So he grabbed a blank and copied the one he had.

That batch of blanks happened to be red, and had NO markings on it - it was solid red except for the mag stripe.

I watched him use it one time - he'd tell the guy at the counter that it was blank for security reasons, and they'd never give him any trouble.

[EricKei]

mk - Wow. That's a serious load of BS from the red-card guy right there. Cashiering 101, last I checked, includes phrasing along the lines of "unsigned credit cards are invalid," and it sounds like this one didn't even have a *place* to sign oO