Beware of fraud happening #Asda supermarket when using their handheld self scanning gun, it happened with me today@ 13:26 I paid for someone's else shopping , good I noticed it before I left #Asda and informed them . It's not very safe to use these scanner.
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sorted byWould you have been fraudlulent?
Fraud needs to be of intent.
What we have is a glitch of some sort which no no doubt will/has been sorted (edited)
Cos shock-horror fraud makes it justifiable to sign up to a deal forum and ramble about the experience, whereas simple mistake, error, prank is too dull to go the trouble of registering / posting.
why would they do that?
every scanner is linked to your account, so the sales team could see if your shopping was the one linked to the scanner that was linked to your account.
and if someone wanted to fraud their shopping - they just don't scan their items and walk through the counter...
getting someone else paying for their shopping doesnt protect them from being randomly selected for a check at the counter... as none of the items on their scanner would match what they have in the basket
I suppose a fraudster could make copies of the barcodes at the checkout that you scan to tell the system to upload your shopping to the checkout.
They stick their own barcodes on two checkout machines, swapping their identities, when a victim goes to use one of them, they go to the other and scan the barcode at the same time. Resulting in their shopping appearing on the screen of the victim's checkout, and the victim's shopping appearing on theirs. Wait for the victim to pay and walk out.
Would fail if the victim looked at the shopping appearing on the screen, unless they'd bought identical basket, and the fraudster still wouldn't have the receipt, and you would have to be registered to use them, so likely get caught.
Another option would be to swap handsets before going to checkout when the victim wasn't looking. (edited)
I am just trying to make people aware it can happened with anyone because it's so easy to do.
Don't the Asda ones tell you how much you've spent as you go along, if so surely you would have had an idea when you downloaded it to the till how much you should have paid anyway. (edited)
They'd get caught by a random check, and once a victim notices, and they'd be an electronic trail of payments by other people's cards on their account, providing evidence for the trial, but I'd imagine every shoplifter expects to get arrested occasionally, and would be aiming to make that as infrequent as possible.
They might figure that if they get stopped on the way out, the electronic record for their account would show their basket as paid for, and if they actually paid for the other persons cheaper shopping basket, they'd be less likely to be challenged by security than if they just walked out. If swapped scanners are noticed, they could try to claim it must have been by accident.
You should .
No i shouldn't and there's not one near me .
I cannot for the life of me see how this is an issue or any sort of 'fraud'. An accident? System error? Maybe, but, even then far fetched.
You take your shopping to the self scanned till. You use the handheld scanner to zap the barcode on the till. This then generates a barcode on your handheld scanner and then all your shopping appears on screen. Its there in front of you what you bought. Did you not notice then, or, when paying by card (as its card payment only) that the value hadnt matched what you expected it to?
But, as others have said, it will be easy enough to trace who scanned/paid for your shopping and with the one you paid for as its all linked to emails and phone numbers which are then cross referenced to card details.
I always feel a bit scrooge-esque if I glance at my receipt when walking out but this has saved me a lot of money (obviously the bread one was detected at the checkout!), they are essentially stealing from customers with double scans and price errors. (edited)