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"Arsène Lupine of modern times": alert to the scam at payment terminals

2022-07-27T09:25:23.264Z


A dozen restaurateurs in the Alpes-Maritimes and Pyrénées-Orientales have been victims in recent weeks of scams at the terminal


All it takes is a moment of inattention from the server and you're done.

The scammer, who pretends to be a customer, replaces the restaurant's payment terminal when paying the bill with another similar TPE that he has programmed himself.

Before the manager realizes the deception, the money collected on the machine is paid into the counterfeiter's account, instead of coming to fill the cash registers of the restaurant.

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Source: leparis

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