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A Nebraska woman allegedly found a lucrative quirk at a gas station pump — double-swipe the rewards card and get free gas!

Unfortunately for her, you can’t do that, prosecutors said. The 45-year-old woman was arrested March 6 and faces felony theft charges accusing her of a crime that cost the gas station nearly $28,000.

Prosecutors say the woman exploited the system over a period of several months. Police learned of the problem in October when the loss-prevention manager at Bosselman Enterprises reported that the company’s Pump & Pantry in Lincoln had been scammed.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago (22 children)

$28,000 of gas in a few months? Yeah no shit. Find something like this and keep it to personal use if you must. Probably could've kept it under the radar or an amount small enough to settle without criminal charges if caught.

[–] Dasus 15 points 9 months ago (21 children)

Yeah no shit. Find something like this and keep it to personal use if you must

Nah.

Figure out how it works, don't use personal card, get a new one (getting a rewards card to someone who doesn't actually exist shouldn't be too hard), then exploit the fuck out of it.

Remember to use balaclava at the pump, and don't use your own car.

[–] andrewta 16 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say wouldn't work anyway.

Stations have cameras.

Cars have plates.

They'd track the car to the owner and the owner would point fingers at who borrowed the car.

The camera would show the face of who was pumping the gas.

[–] Copythis 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What if you just went on foot with 5 gallon containers, didn't do it frequently, and never went to the same gas station a second time?

[–] andrewta 1 points 9 months ago

Might be an option. But if you never went a second time you'd run out of stations that are reasonably close. But yeah going on foot and not doing it a lot might be an option.... Unless the card was in your name lol

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