The thing is...
I didn't try to scam them, my mate signed 'mickey mouse' as a drunken flourish to end the evening. But I didn't exactly come clean and I rode it all the way to a freebie - but if they're really dusting for fingerprints...well...I won't be doing that again.

Amazing really. They have all this amazingly high-tech crap over there, yet chip & pin is a step too far. Probably unforseen complications over the average American's ability to memorise a 4 digit number...
( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Thu 13 May 2010, 17:40, 2 replies)

You do realize the card company will come after you if they read this, right?

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 13 May 2010, 18:02, closed)

Yes...
I have heard that the American Express Fraud Protection Team spend hours trawling b3ta. In fact, a huge international money laundering ring was smashed following revalations made on a recent qotw.
( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Thu 13 May 2010, 18:06, closed)

I'd anonymise it anyway...
Nice odds, but worth the stake?
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 13 May 2010, 19:14, closed)

Google?
Wouldn't take long for them to google something about the hotel, club, amex and bills for them to find this page (once it's been crawled by google of course). They do have people specifically to go looking for things like this...
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Mon 17 May 2010, 16:43, closed)

I'll take the risk...
the story demands it!
( Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Wed 19 May 2010, 10:07, closed)

Er
We do have 4-digit PINs on debit cards, just not on credit cards.
(Tarana, Wed 19 May 2010, 1:32, closed)