In 2011 a major news story broke about a McDonald’s employee who stole credit card information of clients and passed the data onto a black market organization that participates in identity theft:
The news story reads:
A 16-year-old girl working the drive-through had been skimming customers’ credit card numbers, targeting mostly white females in expensive vehicles.
The girl worked at the McDonald’s on 7th street in Monticello, but Haggerty believes she is part of a much larger credit card skimming ring that extends into the Twin Cities. Wright County is in the process of compiling the list of victims, but both Lino Lakes police and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office are involved in the investigation.
The sheriff says the female employee skimmed credit cards twice–once for the purchase and once for the number, which she passed along to a “larger organization.
Setting up your restaurant merchant services account with PCI/PED complaint restaurant merchant equipment will help to lesson your risks of being liable for credit card fraud and identity theft happening to your business.
