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Oystercard picked from pocket
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 ... "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) |
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