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Expensive Steaks

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Fifty diners at some of the better steakhouse restaurants in New York City, including the Capital Grille, Smith & Wollensky, JoJo and Wolfgang’s Steakhouse, became victims of a scam perpetrated by seven waiters using lipstick-size electronic “skimmers” to extract data from the magnetic strips of American Express Centurion, or “black,” cards and other high- and… Read more »