Man I Pissed myself

[Melkor]

I really like this site.

Follow the links at the bottom for more hillarity.

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

[djnitrous]

Gotta test this out

[Daise]

*mental note to self*

will check credit cards more carefully from now on....

[Maarken]

yeah id watch spike with those credit cards he likes those sites that require them...... u all know the ones

[Stoneville]

I always get my signature checked and because it&#39;s a Debit Mastercard it gets check quite a few times a day <_<

Not sure I&#39;d risk going as far as he did

[Uncle Ho]

I travel OS quite regulary and Oz plus UK appear the only places that religiously checks signatures. Many places pass the card back before I sign. Note that in the UK with new smart cards you need both signature and PIN. They don&#39;t use the regular machine but a new type.

[XSorXpire]

I travel OS quite regulary and Oz plus UK appear the only places that religiously checks signatures. Many places pass the card back before I sign. Note that in the UK with new smart cards you need both signature and PIN. They don&#39;t use the regular machine but a new type.
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Interesting that you say they check signatures here. For about a year as a joke i signed my Visa Gold card receipts with M Mouse. Nothing even close to what my signature was. If they took a second look i would look them straight in the eyes and smile. I am a scruff, frequently with messy hair, unshaven and riped jeans or bare foot. I was asked to sign again only twice and my CC is my principle means of paying for things.
It was not until i found out i could be breaking the law that i stopped. Once i even handed my card to a friend in front of a waiter and said "can you sign this i cant be bothered", to which my friend said "what do you want me to sign?" I replied "i just sign Mickey Mouse", so he did.
The waiter asked if it was a company card and i said "no it&#39;s mine."
He let it through.
I now know that it was a fraudulant transaction and i could have got into all sorts of trouble, but i was discussing this same topic with my friend over lunch and decided to prove it without warning him.
I think they may look at the back of the card, but i dont think they check that the signature is the same.

[Flakey]

Interesting that you say they check signatures here. For about a year as a joke i signed my Visa Gold card receipts with M Mouse. Nothing even close to what my signature was. If they took a second look i would look them straight in the eyes and smile. I am a scruff, frequently with messy hair, unshaven and riped jeans or bare foot. I was asked to sign again only twice and my CC is my principle means of paying for things.
It was not until i found out i could be breaking the law that i stopped. Once i even handed my card to a friend in front of a waiter and said "can you sign this i cant be bothered", to which my friend said "what do you want me to sign?" I replied "i just sign Mickey Mouse", so he did.
The waiter asked if it was a company card and i said "no it&#39;s mine."
He let it through.
I now know that it was a fraudulant transaction and i could have got into all sorts of trouble, but i was discussing this same topic with my friend over lunch and decided to prove it without warning him.
I think they may look at the back of the card, but i dont think they check that the signature is the same.
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As I understand it, it&#39;s only a fraudulent transaction if you tell your bank you didn&#39;t authorise it. Then they&#39;ll contact the shop and check the signature. If it&#39;s not yours, then the shop wears the loss and it&#39;ll prolly be taken further by the bank. So it&#39;s the shop that&#39;s taking the risk by not checking it, though if it&#39;s found that it was actually you that purchased it, then I&#39;d expect the bank to get cranky with you.

[SONIC]

It could be the few too many drinks Ive had today - but that is fkn hilarious!

[Ferris]

I AM ZEUS!

[Billywhizz]

Mine is signed.... Photo ID required

and do they ever ask!

so I ask them whay they want me to sign.... silence is golden

[JamesSpelt]

just the other day i bought some stuff at woolies and after signing the authorisation i found i had never even signed my credit card :o so much for security! the girl asked for my bankcard which also turned out to be unsigned, then eventually settled for teh signature on my driver&#39;s licence.

who knows how many times i&#39;ve bought stuff on the card without anyone even pointing out it was unsigned

[sathid]

my signature never looks the same twice, and at times, i miss letters (especially if the pen is crap or the paper slips.

Dont know how anyone short of a handwriting expert would be expected to make a reliable determination if you had someone who could even do something close to your signature.

[gytr_r1]

I went to Tech Ed last year, and attended a few security seminars by the two MS security dudes (they were top blokes). One of them was talking about "identity theft", which really isn&#39;t.. but thats another story

He has been signing his credit card receipts for a while now with drawings of houses, cars, flowers... no one has pulled him up on it yet.

[Mirkz]

that was good...
for a while there I had 2 different signatures on my bank cards...
one was signed with my full name an jus had a couple of extra curls in the letters etc, then I had another signature which consisted only of the first letter of my first name and my full last name (which has now turned into just a big squiggle)...
I used to always get mixed up which one was which and would sign with the wrong one half the time, got picked up once or twice for it tho...