I did use this card to buy a coffee in Penn Station at Primo Cappuccino, get a haircut, buy something at H&M and for a couple Uber rides in NYC. I was heading back to NYC this week and, despite not really giving a shit any more (like most ppl this prob happens to), I thought...
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...maybe - before I left this time, I would retrace my steps, just to see if anything jumped out at me. And if something didn't, I would forget it & life would go on. So, I went to the same shop for a haircut - used his Square card reader, inspected it thoroughly - looked legit.
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(Side note: Great head and beard shave from Sergio at Cohen barbershop on 47th & 7th). Ruled that out. Had already ruled out H&M, but went back and looked upstairs where I paid. POS system looked normal, nothing obviously crazy going on.
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Before heading back toward Philly, my last stop was the Primo Cappuccino across from the NJ Transit station in Penn Station. I remember I paid at the POS system that was over by the beer and not the ones at the regular bakery counter. I walked up to the bakery counter...
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...and inspected the POS machines. Looked normal. Cards were being swiped thin side perpendicular to the screen on both machines. Business as usual. But then...
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I walked over to the POS that I paid at -- the little POS system sitting by itself by the beer that faces the Duane Reade. I found something very interesting. The card swiper did NOT look like the rest of them. It swiped cards flat faced, in the same direction as the screen...
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...also, it was a different color than the others - and than the machine.
Oh, and it was SCOTCH TAPED TO THE FUCKING MONITOR.
Same monitor screen - same brand of POS - VERY DIFFERENT CARD SWIPER.
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So, I inspected to make sure it wasn't a different POS terminal. It wasn't. I took photos and left. That was very early this morning. I don't know if this is where the issue came from, but it sure as fuck looked shady. Since the PD didn't give a fuck and its likely that...
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...nobody else has ever bothered to follow through and/or give a fuck, I thought I would punt my story out to my 70,000 followers and see what, if anything, turns up. REMINDER: I am not accusing the guys of Primo Cappuccino of anything. Having said that - what the fuck?
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Bonus points for anyone who can take additional pictures of the swiper at PC and/or corroborate any of these findings. Whoever stole my card number prob. gets away with it 99% of the time. I'd love to serve someone up a nice big shitburger here for the holiday.
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