Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Just thought I would warn you to watch your bank accounts seeing as mine has been hacked. I used my card to put some petrol in on the 17th of November prior to going to pick the grandson up from hospital in Liverpool. Since the 27th various amounts have been used to top up O2 phones (not mine). Been to the bank and cancelled my card and have been advised by O2 that it is a matter for the police, will be contacting them shortly but just wanted to warn you all to be extra vigilant.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Which garage did you use your card at???


Best Regards - Taggy

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I'm really sorry to hear that Bernie......scum, nothing but scum.
I hope you get re-imbursed.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I can't name them on here, against forum rules:rolleyes:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

if it was a credit card bernie yer in wi a chance, debit card no hope. is usually case, hope ya get sorted.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Nonsense Cashy .. most people have card insurance whether it be credit/debit card ... or crackers if they don't !

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

most people i know don't including me, so your talking nonsense.:p

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I dont have insurance on my debit card however the bank has informed if any fraudulent action took place the money would be credited back into my account but it would take 14 days. It happened to a friend of mine and they received all their money back.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Ok .. must be the season of bad will, here is another sad tale for you:

Daughter textes me this morning ... purse stolen at work ... under her desk in her surgery. Only out of there for about 2 minutes to get stuff from fridge (probably injections or summat).

She is fairly sure took purse to work, as used Boots card to scrape ice off her car window .. :D However, you do question yourself. Not in car ... goes home at lunch to check if she did leave at home. Gets 'phone call on her mobile .. 'tis Nationwide, Bradford .."have had someone in trying to draw out £300 but no identification ... so didn't give them the money" Daughter confirms was not her :eek: so they say "OK ... will cancel this card for you at once as obviously stolen"... asks for her address and date of birth. Daughter gives to them ... :eek:

She get suspicious .. goes back to work ... rings police .. they give her crime no. Rings Nationwide branch, Leeds ... "no, no-one from Nationwide has rung you" :eek:, "but someone has just drawn £500 from your account using your debit card" :eek::eek:

Now the limit for drawing from a cash till at Nationwide is £500 per day .. but these buggers have gone to the desk to draw ... Nationwide ask for no pin number, no identification ... just rely on the signature ... :eek: Lots of their cash machines outside ... would be worth a query one would think.

She is assured will get her money back in 7/10 days ...but now worried ... how did they get her mobile no ? Not in her purse, or her paper work on her desk .. mobile phone in her pocket. Will they be able to get a credit card now having her name and birth date ? ... :eek::eek:

She has an idea of the culprit, as one patient was in a hurry to get away .. and police are looking at CCTV at the bank ... however ... :eek::mad: They getting clever .. giving you a false sense of security with the telephone call .....but Nationwide ...deary me !!!

There is no way my bank (NatWest) would have given me this amount of cash without a driving licence or passport !! And a bl**dy pin number. :eek:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

My bank would not have done either without the pin number.
Hope they catch them terrible.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

crafty thieving swines, but NEVER give any info oer telephone is the lesson here,:(

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Agree ... they just caught her off guard .. that's what they rely on ... people panicking .. and most banks have a service whereby they will inform you if they think anything suspicious going on.... but certainly not if they ring you. Looks like they may be buying something on line ... they do ask for these details. Card cancelled now of course.

Got me puzzled now Cashy with the insurance .. thought I paid some, but was probably when I had credit./store cards (aint now) . just cancelled these off .. but did leave the debit card on ... maybe just have to register it or summat ... will investigate .. ta.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

My bank rang me up week before xmas kate, asking if i had used me credit card that day, they never asked fer any of my details though,they were just checking it was me using it, all they asked fer was -had i? and to pay who?, etc, i was well impressed wi that security check, as i had only used it 5 mins previously.:)

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

petrol stations are notorious for scanning peoples cards, make sure your card stays in your view at all times

one trick is for them to make it appear not to be working and they say it needs a wipe and you think they are wiping it on their pants but they are swiping it through a scanner under the desk


they usually have a deal with a local shop to allow them to spend repeatedly without asking questions which is what happened to somone i know who had somone spend thousands in a clayton le moors shop ,from the ammount of visits you would have thought the shop owner would have got suspicious that a man was using a womans card but then again in most cases a cloned card dosnt even look like a credit/debit card its a pay as you go top up card reprogrammed or some other type of card so why shop owners allow them to pay with them is very suspicious indeed

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I have credit card protection with CPP.......it is something like £29 per year, I also have fraud protection too, in case someone tries to steal my identity....that is a bit more costly at £69 per year.......but it is worth it as they put a named person on the trail of those who try to steal your identity.......and of course you get your money back.
Hope your daughter gets her money back Kate.......it is the bleeding imbuggerance of having to do without your card for days until you get a new one, and also the fact that it is probably someone who was relying on her for help and care. As I said before.....they are scum.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I used to work in a grocery shop, you may not know this, but the shop has a receipt with your card number on, you have the one where most of your number is asterisked off, the shop has to keep the one with your full card number on so it can claim the money back from your bank. What has happened is, the phone top up has been done over the mobile using the receipt from the petrol station. It happened in Middleton when i lived there.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I have had card protection for many years, they quite often ring and ask if I've used my card especially if its a sum oer £100, I get a written report every month as well

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Sorry to hear about your daughter Kate hope she gets sorted.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Thanks Bernie .. sorry I took over your thread with this story. Just that had been on the 'phone to her for an hour taking her vociferous upset ... needed to pass it on.

She will get her money back, it's just the worry wondering if they are going to hit on you with something else. Very clever of them to say it had been cancelled, giving them time to withdraw money before realisation hits you on how stupid you have been. That 1/2 hour gave them the time though.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Welcome to the club. http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/755331-post6.html

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I have been scammed twice. Once while working in Riyhad and the other not too long ago. Both times the moneys were refunded withn a couple of days of completing the paperwork - on line. First came about when our IT man did not load the firewalls and I had made a car booking on line - very clever in a way only $29.99 per month, and hey got away with it for 3 or 4 months. Second time it was scanned in a filling station in Portsmouth, they then used it to transfer £300 overseas through the PO. It was discovered 2 days after and that was the only place I had used it in months, not in UK so I visited the filling station - with company. The 2 blokes that had worked in the kiosk had been fired the day before for theft and no details were available - wan't bothered as the bank refunded the money without any argument or delay.
Nowadays my PC/LT are maintained by me and if i use my cards I make sure that they never go out of my sight at all.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Not got anywhere yet, the police want more info from bank who want more info from O2. Trying to get hold of customer services at O2 proving difficult but no choice other than to keep trying them.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

i know that tesco garage next to swan dont let you use a card if its got a person of the opposite sex's name on, i tried to use my partners card and the guy wouldnt let me, even ho he was sat in the car with the kids and had put the petrol in.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Nobody has had my card Em so I can only assume the details have been copied.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I hope you have got it sorted and they get the scum.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Sorry she has lost it, though it could just be possible because it has happened before to others, She was busy scrapey, scrape, scraping, feeling cold, rushes to get into the warmth of her car and inadvertently leaves the purse on her car roof.
:(

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

rushes to get into the warmth of her car and inadvertently leaves the purse on her car roof.

If Mr Microsoft can do it!

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Well, is feasible I suppose .. will pose the question ... and prepare myself for a bombardment of denial .... :D

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Just spoken to offspring ... seems was a Matalan card ... not Boots ... says no, this was not in her purse, just separate in her car .. so no chance of leaving purse on the roof of her car.

Good news is .. the bank have already put the £500 back into her account !! Trouble is no new card arrived yet, and can't get down to the Nationwide due to working. Still, my birthday card I sent her on the 31st December 1st class hasn't arrived either, so looks like the Royal Mail have problems too.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Glad she got her dosh kate.:) hope bernie does also

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Good news about the money Kate, they told me it would take three to four days for new card to come through

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Kate, it is good to hear that she has been re-imbursed so quickly, but an imbuggerance about having no card to access the money.......fingers crossed it will arrive soon.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Yeh, that's about right Bernie... fairly quick though. Just all the blooming inconvenience in the meantime eh ? Heartless these thieves.

Ok .. my daughter would never be in a position whereby her family would not see her in any sort of trouble, but must be lots of people out there that would be ... :(

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

I had to do that with all three of my cards last year.
Lucky for me when I called the ## back that called me
It was weird the way they were talking so I called my two banks
and did a cancel cards there and then. Cheeky Buggers called me
back and asked for a new card # since the card "on File" didnt work

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Just a little wonder, my Daughter who lives in China was burgled just before Xmas,had her laptop and two mobile phones taken and around £200 in cash, the plod came, and one of them asked for the mobile numbers rang one and the thief actually answered, the plod then asked him to do the right thing an turn himself in to the nearest cop shop,:eek: he declined the request, surprise surprise:rolleyes:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

The police had dozens of mobile numbers in my case that they could have rung and traced but couldn't because of the human rights act.Or so they said.:confused::confused::mad::mad:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

What about your rights Beni:mad:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

No rights left for honest folk:mad::mad:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Become a criminal and be given loads of protection and plenty of goodies and a cosy life when locked up. NOT RIGHT NOT RIGHT they should suffer for their crimes!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::m ad::mad:

Its not the Humans Rights Act it is the Criminal Protection Act.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Bread and water and a cell with a bed and a loo.
If you do the crime payment should be just

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

Progress of sorts been made, managed to contact customer services at O2. They are going to investigate it and ring me back within forty eight hours with the relevant information for the bank.

Re: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
 

hope you are soon sorted Bernie.