News Stories - Card at Table Service
Diners can swipe own credit cards
Crooks who engage in identity theft and credit card fraud will find thin pickings at restaurants with the new CATS encrypted card reader developed by Bellatrix Systems of Bend.
Bellatrix Unveils Revolutionary Alternative to Processing Credit Card Transactions
We make things [for markets] that don't exist before we create them, explains Bill Raven, senior vice president, sales & marketing for Bellatrix Systems, Inc., a Bend-based privately held company that creates high tech electronic control units, service indicators, card readers and semi-automatic vending units.
NYC identity theft and credit card fraud victimized thousands, more than 100 arrested, says D.A.
Bank tellers, restaurant workers and other service employees in New York City lifted credit card data from residents and foreign tourists as part of an identity theft ring that stretched out to China, Europe and the Middle East and victimized thousands, authorities said Friday.
Awareness of PCI Remains “Shockingly Low” Among Small Merchants
Small merchants are not much more aware of—let alone compliant with—the Payment Card Industry data-security standard (PCI) than they were a year ago, according to a study released this week. Some 53% of small merchants are now at least aware of PCI, a small increase from the 47% a similar survey found in 2010.
Survey Outlines Compliance Challenge Among Small Merchants
With a freshly revised version of industry rules for payment card data security having just emerged (Digital Transactions News, Oct. 28), further evidence is also surfacing of the compliance challenge acquirers face with the smallest merchants.
Steakhouse Staff Allegedly Took Cut
A ring of identity thieves recruited waiters at some of New York's most well-known steakhouses to steal credit-card information from diners that was then used to make millions of dollars in illicit purchases, authorities charged on Friday.
Md. man convicted in identity theft, card skimming case
authorities have arrested a suspect who ran an identity theft and credit card skimming ring that victimized more than 780 people was convicted in federal court this week.
Norfolk Man Gets 7 Years in Credit Card Skimming Case
A Norfolk man, Tiquan Savary, was sentenced to seven years in prison by a federal grand jury for running a fraudulent scheme to skim credit and debit card account numbers.
Ex-waitress sentenced in counterfeit card scheme
A former Waterloo waitress has been sent to prison for allegedly using her customers' credit card information to make new cards.
Fake-credit-card schemes plague South Florida
Blank credit cards, holograms, magnetic strips and stolen account information are selling in bulk on websites that offer identity thieves a one-stop shop for their counterfeit-credit-card schemes.
