These USA tourists were charged $30,000 for lunch in BsAs

[LuckyLuke]

Like a bridge over troubled water I laid me down to a well deserved siesta, but the second my head hit the pillow, my brain at last started to work.

Who has a credit card with a limit of US$ 30,000 a day - or more?
Only people who are so wealthy, that they wouldn't notice if they had paid US$29,695 for a pair of gloves or a meal, have a CC limit of that size.
For this person a few thousand dollars would absolutely not "kick off a six-month financial nightmare",

For any average person the alarm bell would sound very loud in their bank or credit card company, screaming scam! scam! scam!

I smell a rat - or rather a fairy tale.

The story sounds very fake to me. First of all the Point of Sale system here doesn't allow them to charge dollars. So it would be a peso amount equivalent to $30,000. Were talking a charge of $42,000,000 pesos. I strongly doubt any card would just approve a foreign charge of that size without making a call. In addition they talk of not having a receipt as if the purchaser has the onus of proving the charge. That's false, the credit card company requires the vendor prove the charge is valid with a signed receipt. How on earth was the restaurant able to provide a $42,000,000 signed receipt? Ridiculous article that was likely written by AI to promote some credit protection service.

 

[carride]

The story sounds very fake to me. First of all the Point of Sale system here doesn't allow them to charge dollars.

POS card readers in Argentina have been able to charge DEBIT cards in dollar amounts since early this year. I have not heard about credit cards.
Also with new chip readers and chip enabled cards, signature has not been required for several years. But in this case the article did say they swiped and signed, instead of using chip.

Ridiculous article that was likely written by AI to promote some credit protection service.

I agree the article seems far fetched. Though that web site is a well known site that has been popular for years. In the early days covered about by many in the mainstream news, because of its success and usefulness. Its primary business is to make money thru affiliate links to the banks who provide cards. If this is a fabrication, then they would be close to libel against Chase and also destroying their original brand. Perhaps they have been sold to some sketchy owners who want to cash in some other way?