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Old Nov 19, 2013 | 8:58 pm
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Originally Posted by JEFFJAGUAR
It sounds like this was a hotel. One of the newest tricks that is used and a great deal in the UK is on the check in card hich they push in your face and get you to sign without reading it, they have inserted a line in the middle of it authorizing them to perform the dcc scam on you. Many of the Marriots push this garbage and try to pull it on their customers.

Such deceitful people out there, that's for sure.
If you have a chip and pin card (and >99% of UK terminals IME are chip enabled) then you can press cancel before you enter in pin, no?
(though it may print out a cancel receipt and the merchant may demand you give back the terminal...)
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