Restaurants account for a lot of credit card fraud...strip joints also...
Interesting that people can be so paranoid about online fraud yet have no fear with letting a illegal alien waitress walk of to parts unkown with their credit card..There are rings of grifters harvesting credit card numbers while working as waitstaff.
The honesty of the merchant plays a big role - I reverse all suspicious activity and report it to the issuing cc company and I won't do international. Some merchants ship the stuff (or say they did) and leave the issuing cc company/bank holding the bag.
Once, I had some dude from Gaza try to buy about $1200 worth of waterproof flashlights and black Aquaskinz tops - enough to outfit a squad of Jihadists - I wonder what he planning?
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