Beware The Razored Fake Payment Card
Written by Evan SchumanApril 1st, 2008
A new type of payment card forger is making the rounds, this time armed with a razor blade and very little money.
After the thief has been able to guess at random numbers and find a viable payment card, the culprit razors off the last few digits from a real payment card and KrazyGlues the guessed at numbers onto the card. He/she then scratches the magstripe to force the cashier to manually enter in the digits, according to this nicely-done story from the Oregonian newspaper.
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