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If the card owner can't block the scan physically, the only other way of
preventing the fraud would be for the card suppliers' systems to spot it
in real time and block or reverse the transactions.

I wonder how feasible that would be? Get the baking foil out, folks!

Not the slightest bit

until and unless someone has reported the POS's Id as belonging to a scammer
it is not the slightest bit possible to tell that the transactions are bogus

tim