[shetlan]

Originally Posted by dudewheresmytardis

THERMAL RECIEPT PRINTERS ARE DIRT CHEAP PEOPLE! Seriously, look about ebay.

True, but that's not really the issue. Whether or not you have a thermal printer, you still need to duplicate the appearance of a Wal-mart receipt - graphics and all.

None the less, even if you can create a perfect duplicate of a receipt it doesn't matter unless the receipt numbers correspond to an actual receipt that the store has on record. If you duplicate a receipt you've already got, good for you - now you have two of them. If you try to create a receipt that previously didn't exist, it doesn't do you any good.

Originally Posted by dudewheresmytardis

I know I've only been HERE for a couple of days, but please don't turn this into another TOTSE, with the over-complicated, completely inane posts that profess to be the hotest scam/drug/bomb/whatever when they ammount to little more than theory.

I've never been on TOTSE, but that sounds alot like RORTA.

Originally Posted by dudewheresmytardis

Now, as I said before, Thermal reciept printers are cheap as hell on ebay. Prior to my devorce I had a ton of em "just because", $5-20 for a good one, a little more if you want colour, yes they make colour thermal. Next cover the barcodes. I do not know why people still flip out at bar codes like they are some kind of magical element, they are pretty damned easy, you have a start sequence, you have the actual bars, which represent letters and numbers etc, followed by a stop sequence. They are used because they are standardised, and standardised things are easily available. For anyone interested in pulling off barcodes, I recommend going to visit wikipedia's articles on barcodes, then google the appropriate type of code which is available freely usually as a font, AND as program, seriously kids, google (or any SE) way more convenient then registering to a forum and assking one of us.

Creating a barcode isn't the complicated part. Unless the barcode corresponds to an actual sale, the barcode is meaningless - as is the rest of the fake receipt.

Quoting myself:

Originally Posted by shetlan's first post

The barcode on a reciept is mearly the receipt number - plainly visible on the front of most reciepts. This aspect would be easy to fake.

More to the point, you need walmart receipt paper (so the proper writing is on the back), a thermal printer, and the appropriate software.

Here's the glitch - all this would allow you to do is duplicate existing receipts. If the transaction doesn't exist, the forged receipt is useless.

To answer your question directly: Yes, you can forge a Wal-mart receipt, it would just be udderly useless.