Mar 29
Check Your Receipts!
Our desire for convenience at every possible turn has prompted fast food restaurants to install computers that allow customers to pay by credit or debit card. That’s good for people like me, who take advantage of direct deposit and almost never have cash anymore.
But you have to check that receipt!
A typographical error at a California Burger King ended up costing one patron more than $4,000 for a meal. Two Whopper Juniors and two Rodeo burgers. The total should have been $4.33. But the cashier forgot that she’d already entered the amount and then re-entered it without erasing the original numbers, creating a bill of $4,334.33. The debit drained the man’s bank account and left him wondering how he’d pay his mortgage.
In the end, the couple got their money back, and Burger King didn’t charge them a cent for the meal because of the error. But it’s a good reminder to the rest of us: when the person at the window asks if you’d like a copy of the receipt, say yes and double-check the amount.
You might save yourself a lot of headaches by doing so.
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March 29th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
I would add to that to see if the receipt you get back has your account or card’s full number printed on it - Some stores and restaurants have older machines that do not XXXX the majority of your account numbers.
Identity theft = account information and a signature.