Inspectors have oyster card readers that can check photocard numbers
associated with the card. If you use someone else's Oyster card that
requires a photocard they will catch you and prosecute you. As for the
'beep', when you put the card on the reader it tells the driver the ticket
type used, it also sounds different if the card is not valid.

S

"Neill Wood" wrote in message
om...
A thought has occured to me while reading this thread. People get on
buses and swipe their Oyster cards without removing them from the
wallet. Is there any indictation apart from the bleep to the driver
that the card is genuine? If you were to have a fake card you can just
pass it in front of the reader and get on free. If the driver is busy
or there is a lot of noise he's got going to hear the bleep. If an
inspector gets on, do you only have to flash you card at him? Have I
uncovered a major fraud possibility here?

Neill



"SJCWHUK" wrote in message
...
I can assure you if a tube inspector stops someone who says his Oyster
card
has been stolen they will check it out. Yep it may involve some note
taking
and a phone call or two but LUL don't prosecute fare paying customers.
:-)

S

"Chris" wrote in message
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
.uk...
In message , at 15:30:41 on Sat,
28
Aug 2004, Paul Weaver remarked:
It's a non-issue surely, as the use of the Oyster to board the bus
will
have been logged centrally. (Or captured locally, to be logged
centrally, later).

If you have an anonymous oyster card?

They must still have some kind of serial number, how else can the OP
phone up and get it cancelled?

Or if its a season ticket?

Why are they different, surely they are logged as a much as pre-pay
(so
Ken can get his statistics on who commutes where).
--
Roland Perry


They are logged as much. You can see what busses, tubes, trains you've
been
on from those big touch screen machines no matter what type of ticket
it
is.
(You can alos request a print out from the ticket office [eg for
expense
claims] but they are often awkward)