Customer who bought 2 coffees at Starbucks hit with an erroneous $4K tip, forcing family to postpone trip to Thailand

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  1. peachboyspeaks says

    My parents got their credit card defrauded by a McDonald’s drive-thru employee when I was younger. This shit is one of my biggest (irrational?) fears.

  2. gbbpro says

    First world problem

  3. the_simurgh says

    this guy needs a lawyer asap. they gave him a check to make it right and then that check bounced.

    if he’s smart he will lawyer up and be on easy street for some time.

  4. Buck_Thorn says

    $444.44 sure looks like a keying error.

  5. countdownfrom1098 says

    this has been posted so many times already

  6. festivalowl says

    Just another reason I will never go to Starbucks

  7. soda-jerk says

    How do all adults not have alerts from their bank enabled?

    I have nearly every alert my bank offers enabled. If something like this were to happen, I’d be notified by text and email, before I even stepped out of the store. I’m notified of any suspicious activity on my card, and I don’t have to pay extra for it. Unless I regularly drop 4k at the corner Starbucks, it would absolutely trigger a warning.

    If your bank doesn’t offer any of this, get a different bank, or credit union.

  8. meauho says

    It was on the tip line and this was with his debit card.

    It is not uncommon for people to not pay attention when checking out at a cash register and you input the tip amount before you input the pin amount so it’s very likely this person wasn’t paying attention, assumed it was time to put in the PIN number, Enter their PIN number as the tip, and then thought the PIN number didn’t work when they got to the PIN number again.

  9. CrawlerSiegfriend says

    When this happens it should be legal to just go down there and remove the money they took from their cash register.

  10. pwnedkiller says

    I accidentally tipped $5 a few weeks ago at Starbucks and I felt like a complete idiot. I can’t imagine the emotions from this person.

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