Fraud

[Dan_s2_coupe]

Hey guys Just got a call from my bank asking if i had been using my card abroard which i havent
There has been 7 transactions totaling £350

My dad has also had this done 2 him yesterday and there are loads of people localy had this aswell

Looks think there is a shell garage near us that has changed hands 3 week ago and the people that had i b4 were forien people and were copying peoples cards by tampering with chip and pin machine the police raided the garage this morning and arrested 5 people bank say they will refund the money

You hear about this all the time but dont think it will happen 2 you cant believe this has happened and now am unable 2 get any of my money as they have blocked my account

So just go carefull guys

[s2driveruk]

bimey thats a nightmare - at least u haven't lost ur money though

[Kylie]

Think that's bad - I've had three credit cards in three months targetted by fraudsters - first one had £7000 charged on it, the second nearly had £700 (the credit card company got suspicious), and just this week I find that my latest card (which I have had for just a matter of weeks) has been targetted by someone trying to transfer the best part of £3000 on to it ..........

Never lost any money, but the hassle of getting new cards etc... is starting to P*** me off a bit

[Acidburn]

My sisters recently had people taking money off her cards at random times.

They'd have no luck getting any off mine, ain't been paid yet....

[Fat Audi 80]

Which is exactly why I have cancelled all but one of my credit cards. They are a bloody liability these days...

[philKS2]

I had the opposite with my cards... went to Italy on holiday last summer... and both my bank debit card and my Tesco credit card were blocked by the bank/Tesco ...

I rang HSBC Mastercard ("use it in x million shops all round the world") and they said "oh well we spotted an unusual spending pattern"

I said "unusual spending pattern !!?? .. I am on goddam holiday using my internationally-accepted mastercard"

"but you didn't tell us you were going away"

"well you're not my mum are you!!!??"

[Fat Audi 80]

I had the opposite with my cards... went to Italy on holiday last summer... and both my bank debit card and my Tesco credit card were blocked by the bank/Tesco ...

I rang HSBC Mastercard ("use it in x million shops all round the world") and they said "oh well we spotted an unusual spending pattern"

I said "unusual spending pattern !!?? .. I am on goddam holiday using my internationally-accepted mastercard"

"but you didn't tell us you were going away"

"well you're not my mum are you!!!??"

You can't win can you!

[kninio]

today i get a letter from the post that i have a mail but its in the custom area and i must go there to get it , but i didnt order anything to get mail? , i went there and the surprise is i have few dvds porn with invoice and they been charging from my visa internet purchase and shipped to my adress , and the police guys where asking me why i order such things? and do i sale them in the market? , what do u think about this guys?

[Keeper of The Kitten]

Shell garage near me was also hit by this, my sister called me to say that some people have had their cards cloned. AFAIK my card isn't one of them, I haven't bought any fuel with it from that garage for several weeks now and the police are already onto the fraud that occurred ...but I am more than a little bit concerned, as this has happened to Shell garages using chip and pin in the past as well.

[kninio]

my bank doesnt recover the internet buyers in case of fraud i cant return the money, they said this card is made for this purpose to just put the amount of money that i want to pay for so they cant return me anything , any way there was a little money not a lot. but what confused me why to ship to me those things to meor maybe it was kids play for fun

[Dan_s2_coupe]

Its a pain cus had 2 cut up my card so have no money till my card comes through as i aint got any credit cars only the debit card

police said there is a nationwide investigation into shell apparently they were swiping the card b4 they went into the pin machine and had a camara in roof watchin you put your pin in or there is a machine inbetween the card machine and the fone line

Just wondering the shell garage you are talking about is it ran by foriners

[Keeper of The Kitten]

It's in Diss, Norfolk, and yes it is I have to say, though I seem to remember the people running it were there when the original Shell problem was being cleared up. I'm not about to cast aspersions about the people there because they're still running it as far as I can see (when I drive past) and the police have been involved already.

I'm now concerned about another potential scam as I ordered something over the phone recently and got a call back about a problem and totally unthinking, I quoted a card number back at them ...now I have to get it checked out!

I never used to worry about card fraud but it seems to be frighteningly easy for people to rip you off these days ...I'll probably only buy with cash from now on and not use a card for anything I don't have to use it for!

[kninio]

Keeper: you cant make the an internet shoping visa card? that u use it just for internet and u put on it the amount u have to pay?

[Sonic]

I use my cards online more than the average user, and i usually fuel up twice a week - at shell garages. Yet, ive never had any fraud on any of my cards.

Does that make me fairly lucky or you guys unlucky?!

[kninio]

maybe its a storm...