Got a tip from this guy on X. His tip is that if you take your credit card (or your ID) and slide it into the opening on the back of the VGC up towards the magnetic bar code… if you immediately hit the sticky gel, then the card is LIKELY GOOD. However, if your […]

Ever since my last Vanilla card tampering incident, I was making sure to only buy new cards in packs or cards in the inside cabinet. However, the store started to run out of new packs and I was depleting the cabinet supply. I eventually got lazy and just started grabbing cards off the pegs, thinking […]

I bought a money order yesterday and noticed the paper had switched over to what you see above. The most noticeable changes are that the amount field is in yellow instead of white (maybe to help ATM machines read it better?) and now below the signature box it says “Mobile Deposit Prohibited.” I know some […]

Today I noticed how crisper the Safeway receipt looked compared to yesterday – almost like they moved to a laser printer over dot matrix. Then when I looked at my VGC receipt, I noticed it no longer prints the serial number of the VGC that I bought. It also grouped the fees into one line […]

About 2 months ago, I had written about how I had bought a tampered Vanilla VGC from Walmart. I called them up and emailed them the information that they requested. Two months passed and I had heard nothing back from them. I was going to call them, but I’ve heard reports they just give you […]