ILPT Request: prepaid disposable debit cards for free gas?

I don't ynderstand.

So sometimes you'll have a prepaid Visa/MasterCard with a dollar or two on it. You run this card at the has pump and , I'm not sure the why or when here, it doesn't authorize an amount, just that there's money on it at all. This makes it so you can fill up your gas tank and you'll either be charged $1 or have a negative balance (but who cares, it's a prepaid card, right?)

This doesnt work with prepaid cards 99% of the time. Me and my boyfriend call it "okey doke-ing". S Buying people gas for half price is really big where I live (Baltimore) and okey doke is one of the methods people use besides doing it with stolen credit cards.

It 100% does work if the card is able to be run as credit and has enough on it to cover whatever the gas station charges as verification (typically $1 - $5). You swipe the card at the pump, select credit, enter zip code, and pump away. As long as you dont hang up the pump you can pump $100 that you don't have before it cuts off.

Some debit cards I know this works with:

• venmo card
• any major bank debit card
• long game savings app card
• current app card

Debit cards I know do NOT work:

• chime
• varo
• cash app
• aspiration
• prepaid visa/Mastercard

Next time you get gas, open your mobile banking app and watch what happens after swiping your card, for some reason gas station transactions often have a much longer delay before posting the amount spent than your other purchases do. So after getting gas there might be a pending transaction for $2, then 15 minutes later it turns into a pending transaction for the amount you actually spent on gas, then remains pending for 24 hours before actually posting to your activity.