Beware of pos scam

[Yablee0]

Have be hearing about people claiming to be scam while using the pos machine not until I experienced it today.

I run a pos business were people come for there daily transactions, today I was in my shop when a guy came in that he want to widraw money so normally I collected is atm card slotted it in my pos machine and I put in the amount he wanted (30k), so I selected his account type which is saving then I now gave him to input is pin number, lol and behold this guy have to erase everything, change the 30k to 1k and  put his pin then press enter to complete or approve the transaction.
After he collected his card and gave me back the pos machine for me to  pay him I now brought out money counting to pay him something just move me to check the transaction first that was when I realized it was just 1k he widrew, I confronted him and he could not even oughter a word.

What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

[Ever-young]

The guy self nah another mugu, some of this people just need make as you notice am you call near by neighbor for am make hand meet am small next time eh no go try am again, watin some of them they do if them notice say you they very busy them go either no put any single amount come dem go just put wrong pin come rush click for print slip, you go think say eh don they successful unless say you check your history or tell am to give you the paper, one way one of my friend report give me nah same pattern dem been wan use scam you, dem edit the amount but put similar amount with watin the person been wan withdraw just remove some zeros make eh no they easily detected.

[rachael9385]

This isn't a scam this is a just a stupid theft scheme, when you want to talk about a pos scam you can mention something like when someone tries to run a fake transfer alert with it, this is something that people actually do . First of all when giving anyone your pos machine to put in their withdrawal pin your hand must be on it for them to speed things up, if you don't put your attention on what customers do with it you can get defrauded

[Nightwalker(NW)]

What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

Does your POS machine don't print receipt after someone makes withdrawal?
Although I know that most of us are ignorant of checking how much on the receipt but I must say it is very important to get your pepper insert into your machine so that you can be having print out of all transaction and give to them. It is actually very difficult to do but it deem necessary to have it printed so that you could have a copy while your customer has their own copies for track records and history purpose, even though it doesn't waste time to fade off but for that first time you can also be making snapshot of it to record them down.

[Finebone]

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What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

You have done well in creating this awareness here, though according to what you explained, it was more of trying to play a quick one on you, but you were smart enough or not careless, if not you would have fall prey to that cheap scam.
I have seen someone defrauded in my presence through pos because she was feeling pity for the customer, not knowing that the person want to scam her.
The person tried to initiate a transfer, showed her, her name in his phone, canceled it, and the next thing he showed her transfer completed,  she didn't know that the person canceled it.
After waiting for like 10 minutes she haven't seen the money, the guy was faking a call that his wife was about to put to birth, that her water has busted and it's the money they are waiting for, so out of pity, this girl release 30k to this scammer thinking that the money will later drop, uptil now, that was how she lost 30k, so if you are doing pos business or anything that involves money, try to be very attentive to every details if not you might be scammed in the process.

[dubeke]

What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

Does your POS machine don't print receipt after someone makes withdrawal?.

This is the first thing i wanted to ask as well, receipt should be your own personal duty as a business owner. I know a POS lady, she must confirm from receipt and app before handing you your money. Sometimes people get mad (me inclusive initially) until she opened up about the losses she has incurred due to quick trust and giving people their money without proper confirmation.

[Yablee0]

What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

Does your POS machine don't print receipt after someone makes withdrawal?.

This is the first thing i wanted to ask as well, receipt should be your own personal duty as a business owner. I know a POS lady, she must confirm from receipt and app before handing you your money. Sometimes people get mad (me inclusive initially) until she opened up about the losses she has incurred due to quick trust and giving people their money without proper confirmation.

Let me clear it, at that point in time my printing papper was not properly fix which I later did.

However, printing out transactions does not really guarantee 100 percent safety from scammer but your extreme carefullness will play a better role on your safety.

[Abdulzuruku01]

You just have luck to check the transaction to confirm how much he sent, otherwise, he would have escaped with your money. To be honest, I don't even know about this tactic, but I'll make sure I narrate this to my friends who are in the POS business because most of them don't even have receipt printers, and the ones that do most times don't care to check how much they send to them, instead, they will just tear the receipt and give it to their customers, which is not right. keep an eye on your transactions at all times, be alert when clients try to rush the transaction process or divert your attention, and keep your eyes on them as they enter their PIN, to prevent being scams.

[SmartCharpa]

Thank God say you tried to confirm the transaction first before you give am the money, If not, the story would be different right now. Some people dey move around with evil plans with their innocent face. Imagine say you trusted him and paid him the full 30k without confirmation, you for just lose money like that and the guy go disappear without even feeling bad for you. You dey run the POS business to hustle and survive in this hard economy, and someone still get evil mind to try to scam you. He didn’t even think for one second that this person he’s trying to scam is also doing everything he can to survive and feed himself. People like this have no pity at all, they don’t even care how their actions fit affect people life.

Moreover, this is why e dey very important to always confirm every transaction before we give out any money. Whether na POS transaction, p2p or even cash in hand, no matter how small or big the money be, the confirmation first dey important. Don’t ever let anyone rush you or pressure you to do fast, if money dey involved, you must calm down and confirm if everything dey correct.

[GPVibes]

This is a pure case of fraud. If you didn't have that feeling to check your machine you would have been a victim. These frausters keep coming up with different strategy to defraud people and when they are caught they start blaming it on devil. You would have raised alarm so that he will be dealt with a little and he will have bitter story to talk about himself.

So my advise to you is, next time you don't have to be carried away to allow your customer to have hold of the machine for a long time because I know that it is not same time that will be spent in putting just the pin and putting another fresh request on the machine. Be bold to request for your machine if you suspect that the customer is taking longer time with the machine.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Always be careful in your business, there are about 4 other different means they can do this kind of scam to defraud POS agents their capital, if you are not vigilant enough, you could fall victims to any of those four methods. These scam methods doesn't only work on POS agents but if you are running a business where you normal get so much cash in cash out, you are likely to experience it if you are not careful. Some of my clients lost so much money through this process.

[sokani]

What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

Thanks for sharing OP. Hope say you raise alarm so that hands go touch am small and di brain go reset.

Does your POS machine don't print receipt after someone makes withdrawal?

Most of them no dey use printing paper and I believe di ole go don observe op from a distance, see say him no dey give out printout before him make di move.

Always be careful in your business, there are about 4 other different means they can do this kind of scam to defraud POS agents their capital, if you are not vigilant enough, you could fall victims to any of those four methods.

E for dey nice if you share am here too, so that we all go learn.

[Pearl_20]

No be small thing, the other day my neighbour has a POS business and was scammed of 400,000  she almost ran mad AHH I felt for her.

The guy did fake transfer, according to her she saw the alert and transferred the money to another account because she had up to that amount so she didn't realise the money didn't reflect in her own account, when someone else came for another transaction then she realised she had insufficient funds.

My girl won mad because the 400,000 didn't enter her account people were telling her to calm but she couldn't hold back her tears on the floor I even follow her cry.

It's so unfair.

[BtcAnalyst1]

Many people don dey complain about this POS wahala every day. Somebody still complaint of fake alert from a POS vendor near where i dey stay. I think it time people start learning from some of the experiences that people are sharing here, this POS theft is spreading fast and we need tell our friends and family to always be at alert and be vigilant especially those that into POS businesses.

[DaNNy001]

Nigeria my country, this is actually very funny to me... people are no longer thinking of honest ways to make money but to scam others... something similar to this happened around where I live but this was a different system, they said he used his phone to hack into the machine, I don't really know how possible it is... you must always be vigilant when you are handing out your pos machine to customers

[BtcAnalyst1]

Honest way to make money don go since, na taday that one Waka comot. People takes unnecessary risk now to survive the current economic hardship that the leaders of this country has brought to her citizens. We never finish the yahoo boys wahala finishoo, now we don enter POS scams. Naija don become one week, one trouble. I nor know how Naija people go manage solve all this wahala wey full groundoo, Make una dey suggest the wey forward so that Naija go beta for all of us.

[Smartvirus]

What am saying fruders have taken there fraudulent activities to another level so we all need to be extremely careful and watch full with our daily transactions.

You don catch now, en go take en tricks elsewhere as, en still Dey walk the street. Na the thing way Dey make these things Dey persist for our society be that, when they are caught, we Dey just set them free like that. Nobody for the country get energy to pursue this kind matter or hand them over to appropriate authorities. Na watin Dey make some people result to jungle justice but thank God for you say you didn’t settle for that.
At least now, you go Dey more careful the way you handle these kind of transactions make person no con use you shine.

[Tonimez]

The rate at which scammers are increasing daily dey fear me. But the only thing I do wey dey always save me being say when matter enter money side, I no dey gree rush again o. I go first calm down dey follow you. If you wan run me fake transfer, no wahala I get all the mobile app for my phone. As you dey show me say you don run am I dey open my bank app sharp sharp. Anybody wey dey run POS this time suppose dey very care. Last year my friend wey get pos enter jail because of wetin he  no know. Scammers use her POS collect money na so police trace am come here shop come pick am. She dey jail for over 3 months until the man wey they scam decide say he don forgive am.

Scam plenty for online. Almost everyone online in crypto market has witnessed one scam attempt or the other. Below was the one I witnessed on November last year where someone wanted to scam me some USDT but I outsmarted him.



They always come in different ways. But anyhow they come, be brave to understand that they are scammers.

[Qhunman]

The Fraudulent man was smart and you were lucky but wait oh,after finding out the truth that this man was a fraud,why didn't you raised an alarm so that he may face judgement or maybe jungle justice but since you're more civil,you should have drag him to the nearest police station. Allowing him to go Scott free is wrong because you're giving him another chance to continue causing mayhem in the society. Abeg Next time, don't how any mercy to a Fraudster.

[Salahmu]

Op there are things I understand from this story, from how the POS withdrawal usually go I think you are the one who even started with the mistake because when somebody wants to withdraw, the POS owner is the one that put everything including the amount the person want to withdraw so I'm surprised you are saying that while you were counting the amount of 30k to give to him you realized when you check the POS that it was just 1k he put, so does it mean that you gave the person the POS machine to put the amount by himself instead of doing it and only ask him to put his password?.