From: "Gaz" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Subject: Re: Petrol Station rip off
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:52:27 +0100

Aaron B wrote:
> "Gaz"  wrote in message
> news:591icbF2ib26cU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Aaron B wrote:
>>> "norm"  wrote in message
>>> news:nj0n23d4g0db6l8v3fj7irnvjsbjooqvbb@4ax.com...
>>>> The recently exposed 'Sri Lankan' card scam seems to involve someone
>>>> scanning the magnetic strip and using a pin entry keyboard that has
>>>> been tampered with to get the pin.
>>>>
>>>> I understand that there is a complex authentication and encryption
>>>> process between the chip on the card and the combined card-reader and
>>>> keypad which should mean that duplication or reading of the chip's
>>>> data is rather more difficult.
>>>>
>>>> I therefore believe that I can greatly increase the security of any
>>>> transaction by wiping a damn great magnet over the magnetic strip on
>>>> my card, thereby destroying the data contained on it.
>>>>
>>>> I would in future tell any retailer where a transaction relied on the
>>>> presence of the magnetic strip to get stuffed.
>>>>
>>>> Discuss.
>>>>
>>> They will tell you to get stuffed.
>>
>> Well, it would be there problem, as the op has presented a valid method 
>> of
>> payment, it is now a civil debt, pay at your leisure.
>>

> If you make off with the goods it will be theft.

No it isnt. If you make off with the goods without offering payment, then it 
is theft.

Gaz