damn & hell! GGGRRRR!!

[wafflycat]

Damn and blast

My credit card has been 'done' Someone has tried to use it to buy stuff in the States. Luckily it's been picked up by the card company & stopped early. But it does mean my current card is now unusable and I have to wait for the replacement to arrive.

Drat, drat, drat and dirty litterbox offerings to credit card fraudsters! May their gonads wither & fester with untreatable MRSA!

 

[longers]

Drat, drat, drat and dirty litterbox offerings to credit card fraudsters! May their gonads wither & fester with untreatable MRSA!

Curse of the day .

It's a bugger when it happens .

I guess you'll have to spend Mr Wafflycats money for a bit then eh?

*goes and checks own account*

 

[wafflycat]

The nit that is worrying is *how* the card got 'done' as I hide my pin number when putting it in... so it's possibly an online fraud?

 

[TVC]

The nit that is worrying is *how* the card got 'done' as I hide my pin number when putting it in... so it's possibly an online fraud?

Are you sure the chickens haven't got hold of a card reader.

Bad luck though, at least it was caught early on.

 

[fossyant]

Been to any shops where you don't normally use it, or on line stores ?

 

[longers]

Quite possibly. It's scary to think of the potential trail you leave electronically when buying stuff. I know things are supposed to be secure and I just trust that they are but it just takes one bad apple or a lapse in security and you are potentially very vulnerable.

I've had it twice, picked it up myself at the stage when they were making small tester purchases. I check my account a lot closer these days.

 

[wafflycat]

I've had it twice, picked it up myself at the stage when they were making small tester purchases. I check my account a lot closer these days.

That's what happened here - there was a tester purchase in the States. Luckily it was picked up by the credit card company. So all credit (hahaha) to the card company in that respect.

 

[longers]

I had someone spending £4.66 or similar on I-tunes in Canada and a fifty quid flight booked from Ho Chi Min City.

 

[Slim]

I just had someone transfer their balance to a card I hadn't used in months.

That would be bad enough but the fraud department I spoke to reckons they would have needed loads of personal details in order to carry out the transfer. I suppose the electoral register would have addresses, etc. Not sure about where scammers would get anything deeper from.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Haa!........the scammers can take over my overdraft anyday

 

[TheDoctor]

Unlucky Waffles. And yes, it's a royal PITA.

I had my card stopped a while back as someone was trying to use it in Delhi. The bank even left a message on the answerphone to let me know.
Sadly I didn't get it, as I was in Delhi at the time, wondering why my card wouldn't work...

 

[Night Train]

Hope this posts.

Sorry to hear that Wafflycat.

I have told the bank not to authorise any overseas payments unless I tell them I am going on holiday and where to.

One of the people at work told me that the same had happened to them last week. They lost £3000 and are arguing with the bank about it. In the meantime their DD's have all failed to pay out for their bills.

 

[longers]

Ooops. At least you know that they're on the ball .

Edit: reply to the doctor - not NT's colleague.

 

[4F]

I had the same last month. Couple of small test purchases and then nearly £1800 worth mostly in the USA. I had only ever used that card in 3 places online !

 

[longers]

Go on then FFFF, give us three clues. It could help prevent credit card fraud .