From next month top restaurants will begin to use hand-held credit card machines to deter the practice known as "skimming".
Diners in expensive restaurants were especially vulnerable to the practice as their gold and platinum credit cards are attractive to thieves.
Skimming involves crooked waiters stealing customers' credit card details when they take cards behind the scenes for charging.
Financial Times 14/04/01 page 18 (Money section)
Diners in expensive restaurants were especially vulnerable to the practice as their gold and platinum credit cards are attractive to thieves.
Skimming involves crooked waiters stealing customers' credit card details when they take cards behind the scenes for charging.
Financial Times 14/04/01 page 18 (Money section)