Check your grocery receipts

kev.s

had this emailed to me today, if it's a repost then apologies..

CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS BEFORE LEAVING THE CHECK-OUT
I bought a bunch of stuff, over £150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a cash-back of £40. I told her I didn't request a cash back & to delete it. She said I'd have to take the £40 because she couldn't delete it. I told Her to call a supervisor. Supervisor came & said I'd have to take it.. I said NO! Taking the £40 would be a cash advance against my Credit card & I wasn't paying interest on a cash advance!!!!! If they couldn't delete it then they would have to delete the whole order. So the supervisor had the cashier delete the whole order & re-scan everything! The second time I looked at the electronic pad before I signed & a cash-back of £20 popped up. At that point I told the cashier & she deleted it. The total came out right. The cashier agreed that the Electronic Pad must be defective.
Obviously the cashier knew the electronic pad was defective because she NEVER offered me the £40 at the beginning. Can you imagine how many people went through before me & at the end of her shift how much money she pocketed?
Just to alert everyone. My co worker went to Milford , Sainsburys last week. She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her along and didn't give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her. My co worker didn't look at her receipt until later that night. The receipt showed that she asked for £20 cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK!
My co-worker called Sainsburys who investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. This is a new scam going on. The cashier will key in that you asked for cash back and then hand it to her friend who is the next person in the queue.
Please, please, please check your receipts right away when using credit or debit cards!
This is NOT limited to Sainsburys; they are one of the largest retailers so they have the most incidents.
I am adding to this. My husband and I were in Sainsburys and paying with credit card when my husband went to sign the credit card signer he just happen to notice there was a £20 cash back added. He told the cashier that he did not ask nor want cash back and she said this machine has been messing up and she cancelled it. We really didn't think anything of it until we read this email.
I wonder how many "seniors" have been, or will be, "stung" by this one????
To make matters worse ...THIS SCAM CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE, AT ANY RETAIL OR WHOLESALE LOCATION!!!
BEFORE LEAVING THE CHECK-OUT........CHECK YOUR RECEIPT!!!!!
THIS COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE. CHECK YOUR RECEIPT BEFORE LEAVING THE STAND. I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DO JUST THAT.

tomwakefield

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/atm/cashback.asp

hollydays

Surely there are other explanations.A cashier could risk doing this only so many times before they were reported,at a high risk of losing their job,there are easier and less obvious ways of fiddling,I am sure.
I keep getting warnings about scams that are ancient and urban myths too.

If she had a friend in the queue,its easier to let them buy stuff and not scan most of it-called " sweethearting".NO scams are that "new"

trisontana

Yet another urban myth doing the rounds!

If you receive any sort of email with this type of "warning" always check with Snopes or Hoax-Slayer. I bet 99.9 % of the time taht is is just an urban myth and has no basis in fact. If you take a look at the above Snopes article you will see that this chain-email started in the USA and somebody has changed dollars to pounds, and Walmart to Sainsburys for the UK "market".

Freddie_Snowbits

kev.s wrote: »

THIS SCAM CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE, AT ANY RETAIL OR WHOLESALE LOCATION!!!

Elf Bowling was going to destroy the world in 1999!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_Bowling

Mankysteve

Can you get cash back with credit cards? Also once the trans gone though you can't cancel it so that bit defo wrong,

aloise

Don't believe it. Security is too tight in the supermarkets now. And most cashiers are honest people.
How on earth would they set this up hen they never know which till they are going to be on when they go into work. A load of rubbish and insulting to cashiers and other staff.

Prettygreeneys_2

Thats impossible I work in a shop customers can only get cashback on a debit card and in my shop and anywhere else I've ever been they always have to initial the receipt to say they've received the cashback.

williham

Yah if you use a credit card they couldn't add cashback anyway.

MrRedundant

It's a complete Myth and if your caught out you deserve to be. Firstly cash back is entered in before you enter your pin therefore you would notice your tally has jumped from the final total of the shopping; secondly most shops get you to initial cash back to avoid you claiming you didnt get it. Far too much stuff to do with cameras on you.

I am sure it could possibly happen but it is certainly not a large scale fraud sweeping the country.

GlasweJen

You can't get cashback on a credit card.
Every till in our store (asda) has CCTV pointed to it at all times, this is standard across the industry and there's no way cashiers would get away with it.
The cashier has to physically enter the cashback, it doesn't automatically go on, you'd see them tapping in 5 buttons after your stuff had been totalled and there would be an anomaly on the receipt.

OP should stop posting crap, sainsburys wont be chuffed to be getting slagged on MSE for something they never did!