here is something interesting that i ran across on the website Snopes concering Walmart and the cashback thing> intersting read you will need to read the whole thing ( kind of long): As various WalMart cashiers told us: We CANNOT request cash back. The buttons that you press to say no [to the Do you want cash back? prompt] or request a [cash back] amount are very close together. People accidently press the wrong ones all the time. We as cashiers have no control over this. Also, if you look up on the pole that has the register number on it, there is a black bubble. THAT is a camera that they use to watch us. They check those all the time. The only way we could steal the customers money would be to print their check for more than the total. That could be easily checked by the customer when we hand it back to them. On the article about the Cash Back Scam, I have been a Walmart cashier for 13 years now, and have had many odd things happen — but in NO case, as you stated in your article — have I ever seen a customer get cash back without asking for it, either accidentally or on purpose. Even if a customer does hand us their debit card, we still are unable to ask for extra cash back. It is always initiated on the customers side. We never have any control over this. We have been accused of it when a customer isnt expecting cash back, but to my knowledge, it is simply impossible for us to actually ask for extra cash back off their card. In every case of customers complaining about getting cash back from credit/debit card purchases without having requested it that we were able to track down, the cause turned out to be that those customers didnt pay close enough attention to the prompts on the card processing keypads or simply pressed the wrong keys by mistake. And in nearly every one of those cases it was verifiable that the complaining customers had in fact been handed the appropriate amount of cash back by their cashiers (even though they insisted they hadnt requested it). It is possible (and sometimes occurs) that a cashier can actually reach over and manipulate the customer keypad herself to initiate a cash back request unbeknownst to the customer, but this requires that the customers attention be completely diverted elsewhere, and it cant be done surreptitiously — the action takes place in full view of other employees, customer, and security cameras (and hence such perpetrators are easily caught). Last updated: 10 November 2013 Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2013 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes logo are registered service marks of snopes. Read more at snopes/fraud/atm/cashback.asp#iFM9uoBROvKf1BPo.99
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:01:53 +0000
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