The Great MacDonald’s Mystery
Con artists have pinched $145000 from 1500 MacDonald’s customers and the police have no idea how they did it.
The 1500 West Australians have all reported large sums of money going missing from their bank accounts. The money seems to have been withdrawn from ATMS in Malaysia and Canada.
The only link between he victims is that they all visited a MacDonalds in the past few weeks and paid with a debit or credit card.
So how did they get away with it?
Was it a disgruntled employee skimming cards at the counter as customers made a purchase?
Did a con artist get access to the eftpos machines before they even got to the restaurants, installing a reader and transmitter that communicated the victim’s details to the con artist?
Or is MacDonalds one of those dodgy companies that keeps customers credit card details on file? A few years ago, Roses Only got hacked by swindlers who stole thousands of customer’s details because the company kept them on file.
What do you think happened?
Police are seeking this man in connection with the scam.
3 Comments to
One would assume that McDonalds would not have need to keep customers details on file. In the case of ROsesOnly, they kept their clients details onfile for the purposes of repeat business. One would assume McDonalds does not have customers requesting ‘the usual’ and saying ‘just add it to my account.”
One can also assume that since the fraud occured across seveal stores that the a single angry employee could not have stolen 15000 details. A conspiracy of McDonald’s burger flippers? Hardly likely.
The only remaining suggestion is that the graud occured prior to the introduction of the equipment into the stores. I’d look outside of McDonalds for your con artist.
-James-
Hey - the 7pm report just stole you’re joke.
I also saw your bad joke on the 7pm Project.
Did they steal it or is it just predictable?