Cafe posts both sides of customer’s forgotten credit card to community Facebook group causing $2,000 of unauthorized charges

A North Carolina woman ended with thousands of dollars worth of unauthorized charges after a cafe posted pictures of her credit card online. 

Rhonda Deaver was visiting the Smith’s Cafe in Kinston after her weekly doctor’s appointment on April 30 when she accidentally left her credit card at the eatery. 

While on her way home, Deaver was called by a bank representative and alerted about suspicious charges. 

When she hurriedly returned back to the dinery, management told Deaver that an employee posted unedited pictures of the front and back side of her card on a Facebook group named Word of Mouth Kinston in an attempt to identify her. 

But by the time she was able to recover her card, over $2,000 worth of charges had been racked up on her account.  

She later told FOX19: ‘I couldn’t believe that they did that, but I was sick, thinking I might be responsible for all those charges. 

‘A whole lot of declines – but a whole lot that went through.’

Deaver has since shut down the account and disputed all of the charges but says that she has suffered serious financial damage. 

‘I live on a fixed income, and there’s not like there’s extra money every month to cover those bills that someone else charged on my card,’ the distressed woman said. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to Smith’s Cafe for a comment. 

But while many may think that posting edited pictures of bank cards may be a safer option, an expert has busted that myth. 

Meredith Radford of the Better Business Bureau explained: ‘You definitely should not post the credit card online. 

‘I would be worried about people being able to reverse that somehow. And even if it’s to find the person, it’s easy enough to cancel your credit card and get a new one with your company. It’s not worth it.’ 

This comes less than a week after a Minnesota ice cream shop employee was fired for receiving a generous tip from a customer that ‘could be’ dealing with dementia.

Emily Swenson was working a shift at the Moorhead Freez when a customer came in and tried to leave her a $100 tip.

After Emily insisted that the tip was too generous and that she could not accept it, the customer put the bill in the tip jar and drove away.

Days later, on April 24, Emily received a written warning from her boss. Her parents, Seth and Lisa Swenson, uploaded the ’employee warning notice form’ on their joint Facebook post. 

It read: ‘Emily needs to understand that some of our customers are elderly and could be dealing with dementia or other illnesses that make it hard for them to understand their actions. No one in their right frame of mind tips $100 at a place where every menu item is under $12.’

The parents explained in their Facebook post that Emily was working her fifth season at the ice cream shop – and revealed that her boss had accused her of ‘taking’ the $100 from a customer. 

The written warning went on to say, ‘As an employee of The Freez, it is your responsibility to protect the reputation of the establishment. If the customer is dealing with issues and the family finds out that she was allowed to put $100 in the tip jar, The Freez will be looked down on as a place that takes advantage of the elderly.’

Emily was fired the next day, according to her parents. 

The Freez terminated her on the basis that she violated the company’s policy which states that employee’s should not accept bills over $20 as a form of payment – even though the policy does not mention anything about tips.