Re: Metcard Student Concession Card Computer Scanned Forgeries!

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

It is the concession ticket that was forged, not the Met I.D. card.

I have seen a number of these with colours that do not look correct,

Cheers
John Wayman

Jennifer Richmond <richmond@melbpc.org.au> wrote in message
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> John Wayman wrote:
>
> > I was on a bus this morning and I saw the driver challenge a student
about a
> > Met Student Concession Card. The student flashed it at the driver as he
> > boarded, but refused to show it to him again when challenged that it
might
> > be a computer scanned forgery. He chose to get off and not travel.
> >
> > Has any of the station staff that contribute to this newsgroup detected
any
> > of these scanned forgeries?
>
> It is not the responsibility of the station staff to check for concession
cards
> (although I do, to make sure they have the correct type). If a person asks
for a
> concession ticket and refuses to show a concession card (or shows an
invalid
> card), we still have to sell the ticket, but we can warn them of the
> consequences: If a CSE (Ticket Inspector) asks them for their concession
card
> and they can't produce it (or produce an invalid card), it's a $100.00
fine,
> they might just as well not have had a ticket at all! I'm sure that the
CSEs
> would do a thorough check of the card.
>
> Sam Eades
>