Re:MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements
by stronglikedan on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:53PM
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Waiters will chase after you if you forget to sign your check, because they must provide a signed receipt to their merchant account provider if you initiate a chargeback, if they want any chance of fighting it. I'm not sure why they just don't scribble a random signature in for me, because that's all I do when I sign it.
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Re:MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements
by yammajr on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:37PM
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Probably because that's called forgery, and if they were caught doing it it would be a much bigger deal than not getting their money from that transaction.
Re:MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements
by stordoff on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:51PM
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If the intent is to fight chargebacks, then a false signature seems even worse. A signature that isn't remotely similar to the cardholder's seems less likely to be successful than a blank signature, and presenting such a document may well be fraud.
Re:MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements
by monster_group on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:12PM
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>>I'm not sure why they just don't scribble a random signature in for me..
Because that would be financial fraud for which they can go to jail.