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re: Have you heard about the Dots' "screw in the gas pump" scam?
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:55 am to tketaco
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:55 am to tketaco
I think the scam is a scam. The screw , even if it held the flap up, would only serve to make the pump think the nozzle was in place, which in turn shuts off the pump.
I feel like this is the syringe-in-the-Pepsi of 2026.
I feel like this is the syringe-in-the-Pepsi of 2026.
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Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:58 am to dragginass
It keeps the handle in the slot from ending the transaction.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:58 am to Night Vision
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It keeps the handle in the slot from ending the transaction.
That zero flow timer, though...
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:59 am to Kcrad
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I'm thinking he saw an employee filling up and was curious if pajeet was getting himself a free tank of gas.
yeah maybe but he goes in HOT like he knew for a fact
Posted on 6/10/26 at 8:59 am to TechBullDawg
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I'd also be wary of Dot owned stations adding water to the tanks.
When I lived down in SW Florida, a guy was caught with a water hose snaking across the driveway from a spicket on side of the building. He was running water into the underground gas tank. It was about 2 or 3 AM. A passerby saw it and filmed it and turned it over to a local TV station.
Think about it, if he adds 1000 gallons of water a month, at $3 a gallon, he’s bringing in some nice extra cash. I wonder how many car engines he ruined.
After the story was televised that convenience store shut down and it was eventually demolished.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:13 am to Pepperoni
That makes zero sense. The flap comes down to let the pump know the nozel is out. When you put the nozzle back in, that screw effects nothing! The flap is being pushed back in by the nozzle.
This post was edited on 6/10/26 at 9:14 am
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:15 am to Night Vision
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keeps the handle in the slot from ending the transaction.
The transaction is handled by pushing the flap IN, by returning the nozzle
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:24 am to ChatGPT of LA
I would kick his dog.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:02 am to SlowFlowPro
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I understand how the scam works
You can easily thwart the scam by not leaving prior to your transaction ending. Who does that?
This isn't like the skimmers that operate in a clandestine manner to where you can't avoid it.
bro just accept that you are an evil demon for questioning how the scam works.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:06 am to lepdagod
This brings up a greater point yes people should not scam us. However, the more we allow ourselves to move to cashless existence to more prevalent things like this will become.
We are sacrificing control of our lives for convenience.
Paying cash and living within our means as a cultural shift will do more to help our country than deportations and more restrictive immigration (I’m in favor of both FTR)
We are sacrificing control of our lives for convenience.
Paying cash and living within our means as a cultural shift will do more to help our country than deportations and more restrictive immigration (I’m in favor of both FTR)
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:09 am to grizzlylongcut
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SlowFlowPro
Really and truly, you may be the biggest low life fricking loser arse bitch I’ve ever come across in either real life or over the internet/social media
its amazing and hilarious how riled up you folks get over SFP.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:11 am to Jorts R Us
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That zero flow timer, though...
That is a thing so you are partly correct but it doesnt stop the station worker from pulling his vehicle or a buddies vehicle in right after you are finished to add to your transaction.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:22 am to scrooster
Don’t care about the scam but that old Indian cursing made me lol
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:24 am to Zakatak
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That is a thing so you are partly correct but it doesnt stop the station worker from pulling his vehicle or a buddies vehicle in right after you are finished to add to your transaction.
Sure, but the coordination to continuously repeat that process successfully doesn't seem worth it. I mean, if a guy is parked directly behind you waiting for your pump when half the other pumps are empty, there's only so many times where you can pull that off before someone starts asking questions. You're going to risk your business for a couple tanks of free gas?
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:59 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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See how angry & defiant they are in their belief that stealing from you is basically their right?
Thank you for pointing that out.
Notice how, in addition to immediately responding with explicitives, they immediately played the RACIST card.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 11:00 am to ChatGPT of LA
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The transaction is handled by pushing the flap IN, by returning the nozzle
Exactly. Keeping the flap from coming all the way OUT does nothing. Handle in, pump off, no scam. The screw accomplishes nothing.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 11:05 am to dragginass
Always hit clear button after pumping
Posted on 6/10/26 at 11:08 am to scrooster
That's as fake as it gets.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 11:23 am to Jorts R Us
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Sure, we will just pretend the recorder of that video was calm.
Think it through. It would make no sense to put these screws in multiple pumps based on just trying to hook a family member up with free gas.
from your link
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After Northlake police issued their alert Monday, they said they were contacted by someone in the industry who said the alert was inaccurate and that the screws were installed by gas stations as a temporary fix to a broken gas pump nozzle flapper.
I saw this on reddit and what I still do not understand is how the scam is supposed to work if the screw is in FRONT of the flapper like in the TikTok video
I can see how it works if the screw is BEHIND the flapper
what I think this may be is some gas station owners know about the screw fix for the flapper and used this as a plausible excuse to set up the scam. Some content creator then makes a video about it and sees the screw fix being used correctly and makes a video accusing the store owners of a scam when they are not scamming at all
Posted on 6/10/26 at 11:35 am to supatigah
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I saw this on reddit and what I still do not understand is how the scam is supposed to work if the screw is in FRONT of the flapper like in the TikTok video
You're thinking too much for people like the OP.
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