Rogue Wolf
Came To Bury Caesar, Not To Praise Him
join:2003-08-12
Saratoga Springs, NY
| reply to jbob
Re: Aluminum foil bandit
As I have worked in retail for a while, I can tell you that many retail establishments use systems that, upon finding that they have no connection to the verification servers, will automatically authorize purchases up to a certain amount. This is done to smooth the customers' experience during times of intermittent connection problems or other issues.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the perpetrator here had worked at a gas station in some sort of managerial role at some point, and concocted this scheme to prey on gas-station conveinence shops (which seem to rely predominantly on satellite connections).
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