I have the "Ask for ID" on my credit cards.  Fry's Electronics is one of the few stores that ALWAYS checks.  Many stores let me swipe the card in a reader on the checkout and put it away without ever showing it.  Especially bad are the stores that have the self service checkouts.  About two years ago a Wal-Mart (Bell and 59th Ave) cashier told me anyone who hasn't reported the cards stolen deserves to have them used.  Naturally, she did not check.  At another Wal-mart (Christown) the same day I was asked for ID before they even started to ring up the purchases.

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Sinck [mailto:plug-discuss@grueslayer.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:28 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: OT: Gym Locker Theft, Live and Learn




\_ SMTP quoth Ed Skinner on 8/18/2003 11:12 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ (Someone suggested writing "ASK FOR ID" in the signature area of the card 
\_ instead of my signature -- would that help?) 

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/index.html

The short version (to avoid annoying ad banners and the like) is:
signatures don't do jack to improve retail/service security.  Maybe
less than jack.

It's sort of amusing the things he did, but the *all* worked,
including "X -----".

Maybe he was just lucky.  Maybe clerks are lazy.  Which is more
likely?

Yah.

David

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