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I'm going to go out on a limb and say wouldn't work anyway.
Stations have cameras.
Cars have plates.
They'd track the car to the owner and the owner would point fingers at who borrowed the car.
The camera would show the face of who was pumping the gas.
It's not easy to read license plates from normal CCTV cameras unless they are pointing at the right spot. I used to install them at gas stations and the owners were almost always surprised by this. The best they can usually get is make, model, and color. Maybe newer cameras are better but I'm guessing the vast majority are using cheap cameras.
You can read license plates with a 5mp camera, you just need to have a narrow fov. If you have a wide angle lens, then you're not going to be able to read them without more resolution.
Right. And most installs have a wide lens to capture as much as possible. Otherwise, you'd need a lot more cameras and gas station owners are cheap as hell from my personal experience.
What if you just went on foot with 5 gallon containers, didn't do it frequently, and never went to the same gas station a second time?
Might be an option. But if you never went a second time you'd run out of stations that are reasonably close. But yeah going on foot and not doing it a lot might be an option.... Unless the card was in your name lol
Just steal plates of another car. Not really a big deal or hard to pull off. And even without a mask, you can use just basic shades and ballcap.
I mean, the risk of getting caught is still very much there, but I'd say it's very much lower than if you use your own plates, your own rewards car and a clear face.
Using someone else's license plate is a felony I'm pretty sure
Which part of my earlier comment led you to believe that I was suggesting any of that was legal?