Travellers warned to beware of debit card cons after one was charged £1,500 for a kebab and another £3,000 for corn on the cob
When Lisa Selby* used her debit card to pay for two slices of barbecued cheese from a beach vendor in Rio de Janeiro, she expected to pay 40 reais (£5.90) for the snack.
But shortly after the payment had gone through, she realised that she had been charged 4,000 reais (£590) after the vendor added two extra zeros to the card reader.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/may/24/brazilian-beach-scam-debit-card-con-kebab
Author : Anna Tims
Publish date : 2026-05-24 06:00:00
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