THEY ARE RUNNING A SCAM! On June 2, 2026 at approximately 8:30 a.m. PST I went to the Alliance Gas Station located at 101 E El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040. I pulled up to pump #1 and went inside to pay cash ($40) for gas at pump #1. I went back to pump 1 and saw the digital readout read $54.74. So, I immediately went back inside the store and asked for help. The cashier claimed I said $40 on pump 6. I did not So, she said she would look at the video. After waiting 5 minutes She returned and said "you told me pump 6". I asked to see the video and She refused. I then asked to see her manager and she asked me to come back tomorrow (which would be today, June 4th). I then asked her to please call her manager and she did. The cashier could be heard calling me "loco" while talking to her manager. She then hung up the phone and told me her manager said I could have $20 of gas but that is all. I asked her why she would offer me $20 in gas if she thought I already pumped $40 of gas on pump 6. She refused to answer. I then asked to speak to her manager and she gave me her number - so I thought. In fact, she gave the phone number of the gas station and then did not answer the call. I then went back into the store at approximately 8:50 a.m. PST and asked the cashier again for her manager's phone number. This time she gave me a different number - a (408)I called this 408 number and spoke with a woman who claimed to be the manager of this Alliance Gas station located at 101 E El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040 but refused to give me her name. I explained what happened and asked her to please look at the video that shows the pumps outside. I asked for this because it would most certainly show I NEVER approached pump #6. She refused and started yelling at me. Not sure why. The "manager" then told me she would speak with the cashier so we ended our call. The cashier then informed me her manager authorized $30 in gas. Again, I asked why, if she thought I was attempting to steal gas from them, she would offer me $30 in gas. She then told me she would allow me to pump $30 in (remember I paid for $40 in gas) and that she would send me $10 via the money app Zelle. The cashier asked me to provide her with my phone number and she wrote "Zelle" on the paper and she wrote my number. I have a picture of this note and it is the cashier's writing. Also on the note is my name, with completely different writing, wherein I wrote my name. Following this nightmare of a transaction I sent a text message to both the cashier and her manager with the note attached and asked them to please follow through so that I would not have to escalate this matter. I never received a reply. I then called the cashier's manager and verbally asked her to follow through and she said I should just let this matter go and that I was harassing her. As of the writing of this complaint, 12:06 p.m. PST I have NOT received the promised Zelle payment of $10 nor have I received a courtesy call from the cashier nor her manager. In closing, I realized $10 is not a lot of money, however, based on the way the cashier and her manager handled this situation, to include offering $20 and $30 in gas when I paid (on camera) $40 and the promise to Zelle me the $10 the next day the cashier and her manager most certainly have scammed other customer before. They were too well rehearsed, too willing to offer me $20 and then $30 in gas when they claimed I already pumped $40 in gas (again cameras will prove I did not) and too anxious to have me leave by offering to pay me what I was owed the next business day. Clearly this is a scam and I do not want others to also be scammed. PLEASE GO ANYWHERE ELSE FOR GAS TO AVOID GETTING SCAMMED LIKE I DID. read more