Comments on: How To NOT Print Credit Card Receipts

By: Trav

Trav — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:54:58 +0000

Hey, Ive just found out how you can avoid that situation!
Just send me your credit card number,and expiration date, and ill make sure that its safe! You can never be too careful, there are a lot of crazys out there! (but not me 😉 )

By: jeri

jeri — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:48:33 +0000

I dont have a comment but my question is, i know that customer copy of a reciept should be no more than 4 numbers what what is the rule on how many the merchant copy has to have? is it safe when their copy shows your whole creditcard number and expiration date?

By: Patrick Ogenstad

Patrick Ogenstad — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:14:21 +0000

EdMike: Well, as they say better late then never 🙂

But I think it’s one think if the store has them, hopefully they have some sort of procedure for handling them. Not all of them will have a working one, but I usually just throw away receipts I don’t feel I should have to worry about what has been printed on them.

It’s great that you like my stories!

By: EdMike

EdMike — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:23:32 +0000

Having worked in several crumy weekend/summer jobs (in the UK) where I’ve had to operate tills I know that the store copy has the full card number plus lots of other useful information. Now if that isn’t bad enough if the custommer gets a refund onto the card company policy dictates they give there full address and name. I’m pretty sure all I need now is a mail box to drop some expencive online orders into which can’t be traced back to me!

On another note, just read through all your stories, very entertaining read. Keep em coming, plus yeah, i know this is an old post!

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:23:03 +0000

I think the current requirement is last 5.

By: Patrick Ogenstad

Patrick Ogenstad — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:02:24 +0000

Thanks for the info, actually that link says “The new receipt truncation policy will soon limit cardholder information on receipts to the last four digits” so it doesn’t seem to be a requirement at this point. I will also check with my bank to see what they think.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:52:08 +0000

In the US at least, Visa and MC require that there be masking on the customer receipts. Merchant receipts can reveal the full 16 digits. Many merchants run non-compliant terminals that still print out the whole card number on both merchant and customer receipts. Running non-compliant terminals is supposed to result in fees levied against the merchant and/or acquiring bank (the merchant’s bank), but this rarely happens. Here’s Visa US’s requirement on receipt truncation:
http://usa.visa.com/about_visa/newsroom/press_kit/security.html?it=search#anchor_19
Only the last 4 digits are supposed to be revealed on customer receipts.