Why would my name be on my mother's credit card receipt?

[LostInAnomie]

My Mom bought some stuff at the mall the other day and when she looked at her receipt my name was on it instead of hers. It's a card she has been using for years. I've never used her card. It's a completely different kind of card than the one I use. And, her name is the only one on the card.

Why would my name appear on her receipt?

[petronius]

1. This sounds like one of those brainteaser puzzles (you know, the surgeon is the boy's

mother, the dead guy used a block of ice sort of things).

Perhaps you filled out a return slip or a store card application or something at a time when your mom actually paid, so they associate the cc# with your name? I'd imagine it's the store's computer that is confused, not the credit card company...

Weird. :shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. This is what I was thinking too...

[LynneSin]

6. don't forget the one where the tires are deflated so the truck can go thru the low underpass

I liked that riddle

[LostInAnomie]

7. We're both confused about it.

She made the purchase at a store two states away while she was on vacation at a store I've never heard of. She used a Visa card too, and I've never had or applied for a Visa card in my life. I don't know what the deal is.

[quakerboy]

3. Is it a store where they ask for an address?

Or a phone number? Its it a store where you have shopped? My name is on my parents safeway recipts, because we all still use the same phone number that we gave up at least 5 years ago.

[Ptah]

4. That was my thought too.

[LostInAnomie]

5. The store was two states away...

... she made the purchase while she was on vacation. It's a store I've never heard of too. I don't know if they asked for the address or not, but she used a Visa card and I've never had or applied for a visa card in my life. I haven't lived at her address for years either.

We're both confused about it.

[quakerboy]

8. Nowdays they are all chains

Kroger is everywhere, under many names, for instance. That was my first thought, that perhaps it had nothing to do with the visa card, but with the stores database.

Alternatively, and not to be an ass, but do you both have the same name? cause that would make for a really easy explanation...