Beat the system and get free gas for months. You can't get away with it that easily.
Fill up your car every week and then not have to pay for it. Yes, at night in bed we all dream of a world where that is reality. In the real world, it's just plain rags for the juice. So that the pump owner also has his money to make his sandwiches in the morning.
Free refueling!
There are people who make the dream world a reality. Not with impunity, by the way. A woman in the American state of Nebraska had found a lucrative way to get free gas. The woman used a reward card to refuel. She discovered that if you swipe the card through the reader twice, the dollar price remains at 0, while you fill up with gas. This is because the system goes into a demonstration mode when you swipe twice. Hey, that's useful! she thought.
She filled up with gas this way for months. The gas station owners weren't stupid either. They could see in the system that with one reward card, petrol was refilled every time, but there was no transaction in return. The police were then called.
The 45-year-old woman was arrested on March 6 and has been charged with fraud. The gas station claims nearly $28,000 in damage. The woman not only stole gasoline for her own use, but she also resold fuel to others to earn money for herself.
The glitch in the system was active from November 2022 to June 1, 2023. After that, double swiping with the reward card for free fuel was no longer possible. The woman used the card to fill up with free petrol a total of 510 times. In total, all those refuelings added up to 28,000 (!) liters of fuel.
She has been released on bail and is scheduled to appear in court on April 11. (through AP news)
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