Originally Posted by
jibi
From what I've seen over the past few weeks, it appears that Incomm and/or CVS has done a good job on getting the bad batches out of the stores and replaced with good batches. From my recent experiences, five stores in the lower South Metro area have been fine. Stores in Union City and Newnan still have no VR cards (it appears they are no longer carrying them). Other stores around this general area have plenty of them, though. All of the cards I've been getting recently are the 0912v1 cards. Just to recap... I've bought 28 VR cards in the last 3 months and only one of them looked different (older card) and was compromised.
These aren't bad batches.
Those cards were tampered with and placed on the rack for ppl to purchase.
The ppl doing it then go in every x minutes and try to load the numbers of the cards they placed there. The numbers are scratched off to buy them time ... it takes time for you to either go back to the CVS where you bought them or call Incomm about them. The longer you wait the more time they have to try to load your reload to their card. They used to do this with GDs but a lot of stores that sell them (where this is a problem) keep them behind the counter now.
VRs are popular with only one set of ppl... Churners who tend to buy a lot and max them out. GDs are popular with the unbanked who tends to put small amounts on them.
One of the CVS in Atlanta which quite a few churners frequent lets us scratch the cards before purchase just to be sure. I haven't seen any cards recently that have been compromised and Im not sure if these scams are still going on. The newer batches of cards are much better and harder to remove the scratch-able section without ruining it.