I was gassing up my car the other day and a guy pulled up to me and said he was on a "long trip" and wanted to know if he could have my receipt. I of course said no, especially because I paid by credit card.

It made me wonder. It is possible that the guy is being reimbursed by someone for his gas expenditures, but I am also curious if someone has figured out how to commit some kind of fraud using gas receipts. Anyone heard anything about something like this?

If the receipt has some of the digits of your credit card, then he may be able to get a dimwitted, $7 an hour phone rep to give up the full credit card #. For example:

"Hi, this is Coriolanus. I have a question about a charge that was made to one of my cards."

"Yes, sir, what date was that?"

"August 4th."

"And what card # was that?"

"Ends in 0123."

"Hmmm...everything looks fine here, sir."

"Oh, wait...I have more than one card. What number was that again?"

"Ends in 0123 -- 0000 0000 0000 0123"

"Oh, yeah, that's right. Thank you."

Happens all the time.

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Happens all the time.

Man, I hope not. That would be sad.

A couple of years ago, I ran into a guy retrieving receipts from the trash can at the pumps. A lot of people throw the receipts away. I reported him to the cashier, who promptly asked him what he was doing on the loudspeaker. He stopped and left. It makes me wonder what he could have done with them..........