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You swipe your credit card at the gas pump and up pops, "Enter your ZIP code." You probably key in the five numbers without thinking, especially if the gas pump icon on your dashboard is lit up.
Interesting thanks. I always thought it was a fraud detection thing at the gas pumps. At the stores, I assumed it was a marketing thing to get that data. If you refuse, the clerk has to put in all 00000s though otherwise it will not process through for your sale.
Lowes is bad at this. The clerk line is that it tells them where to put new stores. I just say no, and if pressed, say "There is no way Lowes is going to put a store near where I live." Asking ANYTHING is a violation of most of the merchant agreements. The whole concept that the CC companies depend on is that it is easier to use a card than cash or other method of payment.
The bit in the article about potential theft because the cashier has your credit card number and your zip???
Where I work customers swipe their cards themselves, how would the cashier get the card number? Anything on the receipt or at the computer doesn't show the entire card number either.
Actually other than restaurants, which don' ask for your zip, I can't think of anyplace I don't swipe my own card.
And if a retailer is able to determine an address from a card number and a zip code, it sounds suspiciously like someone is selling that info to the retailer. Perhaps the credit card company holds some responsibility for that too?
I got asked for my phone number at the register at Lowe's just a few days, on a cash purchase. I though they stopped doing that ages ago, what's the point of it anyway if you aren't writing a check? Maybe they do phone here because the entire city has the same zip?
Alot of assuming in that article really.Its not hard to get the consumers addresss form the card infomation itself really.Like showig your ID when using card is easytoo.
When they ask me, I usually say, at an elevated volume, "YOU WANT MY NUMBER?! LIKE THE NAZIS WANTED NUMBERS FROM THE JEWS?!?!" They usually back off at that point, especially if everybody in the store hears me.
You swipe your credit card at the gas pump and up pops, "Enter your ZIP code." You probably key in the five numbers without thinking, especially if the gas pump icon on your dashboard is lit up.
"I got asked for my phone number at the register at Lowe's just a few days, on a cash purchase. I though they stopped doing that ages ago, what's the point of it anyway if you aren't writing a check? Maybe they do phone here because the entire city has the same zip?"
The schtick they use here is that it is in case you come back for a refund or there is a recall. Give 'em the phone number of the police.
I just give them my zip code where I lived as a child, 09019.
You can't do that at the gas pumps, though, because it won't accept the credit card unless the ZIP code you punch in matches that of the credit card.
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