Originally Posted by
gregorygrady
LOL, if only it were that easy. How do you "show them an inactive card"? How would they know it is actually inactive rather than already drained by you? I would think that these cashiers are trained (perhaps?) to be on the lookout for fraud. I think a big tipoff to a fraudster would be some clown coming in and saying "I bought these cards here and they were not activated, can I give them back to you and get a cash refund?"
I guess it depends on where you live.
In my part of the world, a simple phone call will determine whether the card was first activated and second whether it was drained. I suspect that when the manager took my bad card back to his office, he did this. We then looked at the receipt and noted that the cashier had scanned one card twice rather than each card individually, thereby creating the problem.
With that information, he then supplied me with a new card.
But you are right. Scamsters have all sorts of ways of scamming people out of their money.