Pickpockets.
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Fat faced creature squeezes past me in a car park. I didn't think anything of it at the time because, like sometimes happens, two people walking in opposite directions go for the same gap at the same time. As we meet he steps to one side and sort of eases around me and bumps into me at the same time. ''Sorry mate' he says and we go our separate ways.
5 mins later, for no particular reason, I realise I can no longer feel my wallet in my pocket.
Quiet village too. So I expect no cctv either. Not that it would do any good if there were.
5 mins later, for no particular reason, I realise I can no longer feel my wallet in my pocket.
Quiet village too. So I expect no cctv either. Not that it would do any good if there were.
cheadle hulme
Guru
- Location
- Llandudno
Unlucky Colly. Sounds a bit odd though, quiet village and all that. Was he (assume a he?) on his own?
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Unlucky colly. They'd be luck to get $20au (still there from my holiday 8 months ago) from my wallet.
oxbob said:
Yep.
Yes it was a 'he' and I'm not sure if he was alone or not. Maybe it isn't an area he would usually work and I just happened to be an opportunity not to be missed. I can't see a bloke like that using a quiet place regularly.
Of course there are loads of 'quiet' villages around with car parks and perhaps because they are so quiet people aren't on there guard.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Unlucky - have you had to cancel many cards too?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Let's hope he buys enough drugs with the £100 for an overdose.
Sittingduck
Legendary Member
- Location
- Somewhere flat
Gutted - sorry to hear that Colly 
I too have been the victim of crime in the past day... Apparently some toe-rag obtained my debit card details and tried to use it to buy eight hundred-odd quid's worth of computer kit online - Lloyds spotted the dodgy transaction and declined it, freezing the card (now cancelled). The firm the mug tried to buy from were e-mailed by me this afternoon "on the hunt for clues" and I have now forwarded on their fraud department's details to the local Rozzers
I'll catch whoever did this - mark my words
Anyway - it's a real shame when you have to cancel cards and ID and stuff like that - bad luck mate!
I too have been the victim of crime in the past day... Apparently some toe-rag obtained my debit card details and tried to use it to buy eight hundred-odd quid's worth of computer kit online - Lloyds spotted the dodgy transaction and declined it, freezing the card (now cancelled). The firm the mug tried to buy from were e-mailed by me this afternoon "on the hunt for clues" and I have now forwarded on their fraud department's details to the local Rozzers
I'll catch whoever did this - mark my words
Anyway - it's a real shame when you have to cancel cards and ID and stuff like that - bad luck mate!
Yes I cancelled a couple of cards right away and the last purchases were mine.
What's more worrying is that he now has my name and address, business name, phone numbers etc, a few details about other personal odds and ends.
I am more concerned that I will start to see credit accounts etc being opened up all over the place in my name.
I'm wondering just what damage something like this can do even if in money terms it is limited.
What's more worrying is that he now has my name and address, business name, phone numbers etc, a few details about other personal odds and ends.
I am more concerned that I will start to see credit accounts etc being opened up all over the place in my name.
I'm wondering just what damage something like this can do even if in money terms it is limited.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
This is why I keep mine in a very deep front trouser pocket with a whole load of other man junk in there. I struggle to get my wallet out so others will have no chance without me noticing.
When my Mum lived in London she used to have shoulder holster that she kept her money in and a cheap empty purse tucked in the side of her shopping trolley. She lost a few purses but never her money.
When my Mum lived in London she used to have shoulder holster that she kept her money in and a cheap empty purse tucked in the side of her shopping trolley. She lost a few purses but never her money.
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
Feel for you. I've suffered credit card fraud and had my eBay account hijacked, the feeling of helplessness is horrible.
I've never used a wallet for this reason. Thieves can spot them a mile off and you loose too much in one hit. I carry only what I'll need at any given time, carry it in different places on me and never in a back or open pocket. Cards, cash etc are always in front pockets and never together.
Women are unbelievable. They put everything of value in one big bag then hang it off their shoulder by a bit of string! that's until they get to the coffee shop, when they chuck it on the floor!
Years ago my wife lost her hand bag. She'd chucked it in the tray under the kid's pushchair and it just, fell out! It had everything in it, car keys, house keys, cash, credit cards, phone, the lot. Thankfully for her it fell out on a quiet street and when she went back it was lying on the pavement. Kids must have found it though as the cash and phone were gone but the cards etc were still in it.
I've never used a wallet for this reason. Thieves can spot them a mile off and you loose too much in one hit. I carry only what I'll need at any given time, carry it in different places on me and never in a back or open pocket. Cards, cash etc are always in front pockets and never together.
Women are unbelievable. They put everything of value in one big bag then hang it off their shoulder by a bit of string! that's until they get to the coffee shop, when they chuck it on the floor!
Years ago my wife lost her hand bag. She'd chucked it in the tray under the kid's pushchair and it just, fell out! It had everything in it, car keys, house keys, cash, credit cards, phone, the lot. Thankfully for her it fell out on a quiet street and when she went back it was lying on the pavement. Kids must have found it though as the cash and phone were gone but the cards etc were still in it.
Proto
Legendary Member
- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
My eldest daugher recently had her PIN and card stolen and her bank account cleaned out. £1600 (she'd been paid four days earlier)
Paid her bar bill in a club using her card, put card in bag hanging around her shoulder. Went home, next day no card. Checked her bank and £1600 gone. She can only assume a gang was operating, clocked her pin number and then pinched her card.
Bought £600 worth of groceries at 6.00 am with it, then 4 Oyster travel cards. Amazingly Barclay's systems didn't find this suspicious usage of a debit card.
Reported to Barclays within 24 hours. However Barclays are refusing to refund her loss, blaming her for irresposible use of card/pin. I fecking hate banks.
Paid her bar bill in a club using her card, put card in bag hanging around her shoulder. Went home, next day no card. Checked her bank and £1600 gone. She can only assume a gang was operating, clocked her pin number and then pinched her card.
Bought £600 worth of groceries at 6.00 am with it, then 4 Oyster travel cards. Amazingly Barclay's systems didn't find this suspicious usage of a debit card.
Reported to Barclays within 24 hours. However Barclays are refusing to refund her loss, blaming her for irresposible use of card/pin. I fecking hate banks.
Proto said:
How long ago was this? You might well be able to challenge that.
My daughter had something similar happen a year or so ago. She had her card taken while she was at a ''friends'' house and over two nights £900 was taken from her account in three goes. The fact that two lots of £300 was taken out 10 mins apart either side of midnight 'didn't seem unusual' according them. Never mind that the biggest withdrawal before that was £60 in all the time she had the account open.
It was a Halifax card and to be fair they did put the money back in her account after a couple of weeks.
Reporting it to them and the police was surreal in that no one was interested.
The Halifax even suggested initially that she needed to open a new account rather than simply stopping the card. Two days later it turns out they didn't even do that although no more cash was taken. Then it took two visits and a number of phone calls to the police to get it reported properly.