N P n Auto Centre, Pinetown

The following storey has been circulating pinetown - please could you confirm whether the company is dong anything about it ? Subject: FW: Fw: GARAGE IN PINETOWN ALSO KNOWN AS NPN BIG SCAM!!m Hi All, I just wanted to let you all know what happened to Victor on Thursday night at the Pinetown Shell garage known as NPN – the big one in St. John’s Avenue across the road from The Towers. He stopped to put in petrol and the attendant asked him whether he was paying cash or card. Victor said card and the attendant said that he would get the machine to swipe the card. Victor gave him the card and he swiped it – all this done in front of Victor. The following day I had to do some EFT payments through the internet. When I logged into to Victor’s account, there was only R452-72 in his account. I thought – “Victor you ….. so and so …… how the heck am I going to pay our bills? – Where in the heck is all the money gone?” So I proceeded to phone Victor to find out where he spent all the money and he says it’s impossible the money is there – he hasn’t touched it. He tells me he will check the account and will phone me back. It wasn’t minutes later he phoned me very distraught. Three transactions were done in a space of 7 minutes – not even – and all the money was gone! Victor went to Standard Bank to report this event. They are aware of a syndicate that pays petrol attendants to carry some sort of a scanning device that is attached either on their arms (they will wear long sleeve tops) or it’s on their chest / tummy area and they take your card to swipe in the machine and it looks like they are rubbing the magnetic strip on their clothes and in the meantime your info is getting scanned to someone else and within minutes you are broke. Standard Bank told Victor that their fraud department would handle this investigation and that he must not contact them for 10 days and thereafter it might take 25 working days to see whether he will get his money back or not. Victor asked the bank if he must report it to the police they asked him who is the police going to open a case against? Victor went back to NPN to speak to the owner of the petrol station and to check footage of the cameras from the night before and furthermore to make him aware of what is happening on his premises. The petrol attendants know exactly where to stand where the cameras can’t see them and the owner of the station says it’s not his responsibility either and his guys won’t do that. Yeah right!!! Victor knows who the attendant is …. In the meantime, we are unable to meet our financial commitments and we are frustrated that once again the man on the street gets ripped off! Please I am begging you all - please pass this on to everyone you know – especially the people that live in and around Pinetown – I will ensure that the NPN petrol station “feels the pinch” as we are now feeling. The owner’s attitude sucked! How many more people are going to get ripped off and how many already have and have just accepted it as is the norm in our crime ridden country? Well I know there’s not much we can do except bide our time and wait for the bank to do their investigations but I do have access to email and I shall use it to spread the word and hope that I have prevented somebody else falling victim to this scam. I have faith – justice will prevail!