So much fraud

This bloke rang up today, saying that his brother had run out of fuel and rang him to ask him if he could pay for the fuel, so he gave me his credit card details over the phone.  I wrote them down and asked his brother’s name, which was Nick.  The brother arrived probably 5 or so minutes later, got his fuel and also got cigarettes and a mobile phone.  It was prepaid so i asked how much fuel he needed, which was $50.  Total came to $180.  It went through fine.

It wasn’t til later that the lady after me arrived and that guy rang up again asking if he could get two more mobile phones, but I didn’t really understand what he was on about, something about refunding one of them for cash.  Yes, cue stupid gullible me, not even clicking onto all the signs.  This bloke re-appeared shortly after and the lady after me said that she wouldn’t do it because it sounds dodgy as.  The card had worked last time, but this time when I went to put the sale through of the two extra phones, the card declined. 

So, me doing the nice thing for someone who I thought was stuck, pretty much has all the signs of fraud.  Especially after the card declined the second time, which makes me think they used it somewhere else and the card wasn’t cancelled between the first transaction at my store and the second.  The lady after me reckons she’ll contact the police at some point today.  The guy is on camera and we know what vehicle he is driving, which is a rather nice vehicle, and he is using the name ‘Nick Munro’, which is pretty lame when i think about it because it sounds so much like Mike Munroe lol.

So anyway, I’m hoping I don’t get in trouble for this.  I mean it’s not like it was theft, like those other bitches I’m still chasing up.  We still got the money but i feel bad that it was probably at some other bastards expense.  My message to you if you are reading this is please put a PIN on all your credit cards and don’t use a signature – if your card is stolen it’s way too easy to use either over the internet, or by doing a stunt like these two have.  I won’t be taking down credit card details over the phone anymore – who knows if it’s actually theirs!?

When I got to work, my manager had written on the drive-off forms for details of the vehicle and the offenders.  MY GOD what ELSE does she expect me to do?  Not only did I copy down driver’s licences (including addresses and whatever fake phone numbers these bitches provided when they made up their sob story), registrations of the vehicles, AND the fact they are both on the security camera, she wants what sort of vehicle they were driving.  I can’t fucking remember that!  Why does that even matter?  All I know is they were small sedans, one maybe blue or silver and the other one white.  The brand and make I’d have no idea.  I can’t tell my cars that well – I’m no god-damn straight guy who knows everything about cars – sorry.  And that time of night, unless its something obvious, or my car I drive, I wouldn’t have a clue what it is.  Apparently the registration on the car isn’t good enough because so many people go to the trouble os using fake number plates these days.  And what, does that mean they are using plastic surgery as well?  They are ON the camera.  So last night was spent out the back going through the security footage to the times where the two seperate offenders (both women) were in and writing down the exact time they were in for the manager to look at, as she clearly couldn’t find it herself.  So the only detail missing is what sort of car both women were driving – how is that gunna help any when they are on CAMERA in the FLESH?  Geezz.

FFS DO THE RIGHT THING ARSEHOLES!!