Don't know how true this is, but it's a good reminder to be smart and stay alert when checking out at store registers. :thumb:

BE ALERT, THERE ARE SCAMS EVERYWHERE

OMG! YES! THIS IS TRUE! It happened at Wal-Mart (Supercenter Store #1279,
10411 N Freeway 45, Houston, TX 77037) a month ago. I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a cash-back of $40. I told her I didn't request a cash back & to delete it. She said I'd have to take the $40 because she couldn't delete it. I told her to call a supervisor. Supervisor came & said I'd have to take it. I said NO! Taking the $40 would be a cash advance against my Discover & I wasn't paying interest on a cash advance!!!!! If they couldn't delete it then they would have to delete the whole order. So the supervisor had the cashier delete the whole order & re-scan everything! The second time I looked at the electronic pad before I signed & a cash-back of $20 popped up. At that point I told the cashier & she deleted it. The total came out right. The cashier agreed that the electronic pad must be defective. Obviously the cashier knew the electronic pad was defective because she NEVER offered me the $40 at the beginning. Can you imagine how many people went through before me & at the end of her shift how much money she pocketed?

Don't know if this is true or not but sounds reasonable.

This could probably happen at any store where they will give you cash back so be cautious.

Just to alert everyone. My co worker went to Milford DE Walmart last week.
She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her along and didn't give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her. My co worker didn't look at her receipt until later that night. The receipt showed that she asked for $20 cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK. My co worker called Walmart who investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. There is a scam going on. The cashier will ask for cash back and hand it to her friend who is the next person in line. Please, Please, please check your receipts right away when using debit cards. The store has the cashier under investigation now. We can only pray that she is caught very soon.

I am adding to this. My husband and I were in WalMart North Salisbury and paying with credit card when my husband went to sign the credit card signer he just happen to notice there was a $20 cash back added. He told the cashier that he did not ask nor want cash back and she said this machine has been messing up and she canceled it. We really didn't think anything of it until we read this email. Please be aware

I keep snopes on favorits just for this reason. Check it out.
Go down about half way for details.


http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/cashback.asp

I tried to find it on Snopes before I posted it, but couldn't find anything. Guess that's because I didn't use the all-powerful Walmart word in my search. :whistle: :D

But, like I said........."but it's a good reminder to be smart and stay alert when checking out at store registers." ANY store registers. :thumb:

You are right, most of us don't pay attention at the check-out.

In Snopes I put in "debit card money back"

A friend of mine just told me this morning that it happened to him just a couple of months ago at OUR LOCAL WALMART! He was checking his receipt as he was walking out the WM doors and noticed a $40 cash-back! Hadn't asked for one, nor did he get one. He went back to the cashier and they refunded the $40.

Can't trust Snopes anymore. They're in cahoots with big business and other un-desirables. :whistle:

A cashier can not ask for cash back when someone uses a card. Period. The buttons on the machine ( which the the customer uses) is very close... your friend must of hit it on accident. That does happen sometimes. Wal-mart hasn't got to where they are by being stupid and doing stuff as goofy as that. They make sure they are protected one way by only letting cashiers to be able to do certian things. Every move cashiers make with that money is being recorded. Take any receipt you want, go to wal-mart managment with a problem, and they will pull it up. You don't even have to have a receipt. Say someone left something behind and the customer said they didn't get it, but the cashier said he/she remembered putting it in the buggy. They will go look it up (if its a big purchase or something that happens alot)...it is all on tape. Each register has its own little camera...look for it the next time your in wal-mart...It is right over the registers!!!

The only way I could see this playing out was if the customer did hit the button unknowly... thinking he hit no cash back and the cashier didn't watch the register and see he hit 40 cash back (most customer tell cashiers when they are getting cash back). That does happen... but cashiers CAN NOT make the machine give cash back. EVER. That is all the customer.

Snopes is still okay in my book...right on target as a matter of fact.

"The only way I could see this playing out was if the customer did hit the button unknowly... thinking he hit no cash back and the cashier didn't watch the register and see he hit 40 cash back (most customer tell cashiers when they are getting cash back). That does happen... but cashiers CAN NOT make the machine give cash back. EVER. That is all the customer."

That could possibly be what happened to my friend, Arby.
However, I still don't put all my trust in Snopes.
:thumb:

This very thing happened to me last week at WalGreens here in S. AR.

I paid with my debit card and the pad automatically added a $20 cash back. Thankfully, the cashier handed me the $20 and I pointed out that I didn't request the cash back. The manager handled it, but I'm anxious to see if that $20 ended up coming from my account anyway.

It happened to me a few months ago at this Walmart. The cashier handed me a $100.00 dollar bill with my receipt, and I asked her what she was doing. She said I had punched the button to get $100 back from my debit purchase, and no I did not.
Rarely will I get $20 cash back, but never more than that.
I asked if she could credit the $100 back to my card if I gave it back, and she said she couldn't. I didn't have much in that account at the time, and I was afraid I would have gotten an overdraft or something so I had to get it to the bank first thing the next morning.
So it does happen, but I wasn't scammed. Maybe sometimes the machines just do it in error?

I had a friend of mine get $100 back from the cashier. He didn't ask for cash back but he took it any way. He checked his account 2 weeks later and it still wasn't removed. He thinks it was taken from someone elses account.