WARNING - Using Credit Cards At Centerparcs Shops

fallen121

Anyone about to go to Centerparcs do check your credit card receipts very carefully as have noticed the following from Whinfell Forest site near Penrith in Cumbria which may also apply elsewhere.

Basically, if you use your credit card at the Parcmarket, the receipt you get shows the first 12 digits of your card number and blanks off the last 4 digits. Use the same card at any of the other shops or restaurants and it blanks off the first 12 and shows the last 4. Now I know this isn't much good without the PIN number, but it might be theoretically possible for a dishonest employee to pick up on this, and receipts are easy to track because they all show your surname and lodge number. So there is the potential for someone to assemble your entire credit card number without too much difficulty.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Paul_Herring

That number generally isn't much use without one or (usually) more of:
* Expiry date
* CCU Number
* Name on the card
* Address

nomoneytoday

Credit card slips showed the full number for years. On its own the number is next to useless...

moneypooh

Maybe only at Whinfell, because not the same experience at Elveden.

fallen121

Paul_Herring wrote: »

That number generally isn't much use without one or (usually) more of:
* Expiry date
* CCU Number
* Name on the card
* Address

True. But not exactly hard to assemble though. Some receipts show expiry date, plus many also show surname and lodge number. Not hard for staff to look up the rest of what they need from the Guest Computer.

I'm not suggesting for a moment that Centerparcs staff are on the brink of perpetrating a massive fraud, in fact without the PIN number they're pretty much stuffed. But if having your credit card number in the public domain is no real big deal, then lots of people I know are spending hours shredding receipts for no reason - time which could be better spent, drinking:beer:, or taking in a movie or eating pizza.....!!!