however, my bank spotted it, albeit because of a legit transaction, and they have refunded everything that I don't recognise.
just waiting for a new card!!!!

I warned you all about this a few months back. Wait for it....A Million pound a day!!! However its viewed as a faceless crime.............. by the Banks etc.

Rule 1, never let your card out of your sight, ever!. It takes a micro second for someone to scam the info from it.

However the most likely time your details will be scamed is at the cash point. Initially check around you, look for someone or two hanging around, or someone sitting in a car nearby fiddling with what looks like a lap top.

When you go to the cash point look at the bit where you put your card in, it may look real, but give it a little tug before putting your card in. THis is the low tech stuff.

Secondly, look above where the roof area of the cash point section is, the bit that overhangs the key pad area. Check there for any thing that looks like a strip with the eye of a camera in it. This is the more advanced scam where they have a bit of kit, reading in a car the microwaves your card emits as the genuine machine reads it.

They need a camera link to watch you enter your pin, so when you do enter your pin, cover up your finger as you do it.

The information contained on the magnetic strip is roughly two lines long, and easy to send in an email, add to a card the other end and away you go!

:o:o:o:mad::mad::mad:

Filthy scumbags..

Sorry to hear about your sh*tty time ...

Kind of makes me realise that maybe the fact that I am ALWAYS overdrawn without a penny to my name ( there is always too much month left at the end of my wage packet..... ) and not owning any credit card is maybe not so bad after all !

I'd like to see those t*ssers clean me out !:lol::lol::lol:

Sorry to hear this....real bummer.

I'm alright tho cos I've got naff all in my account nowadays...They'd have to rob my overderaft...:o

Hope you all get it sorted....

It\'s the new mugging ..
 

.. identy crime isn't violent but it's huge :mad:

and just as scary...

One of our Practice Nurses went into a local shopping parade in her lunch hour in uniform and used her card in one of the machines.....

She went back to work and at some point during the afternoon when she left her room some scumbag went in and stole her handbag and within 1 hour emptied her account out ( thankfully she only had about £80 in it ) using her PIN number..:o:o:o

What frightened us most was the fact that she had been watched at the machine and then followed back to work ( a Doctors surgery ) and they had even seen what room she went into....:o

Not hugely confidence inspiring !

I had the opposite happen. I used a credit card which I hadn't used for a while, to buy some new sofas and a cooker - quite a bit of money.

The next day, I had a call from Bank of Scotland to confirm that I knew about the transactions. What freaked me out was the fact that it was an automated call! Definitely legit, as they never asked me to give any account number details, and said that if I wanted to speak to them I should call the number on the back of my card.

Shame not all the banks seem to have got it right yet. I'd rather be asked like that every time, and lose the contents of my current account!

Saz

Such bad news Paul, I worry about it all the time hope they sort it soon.:(:(

Yeah this happens to me too!...If it's outside your normal spending habits AND if I spend at the mobile phone shop I get a call from Barclays!...
Now and again I might go into town if I have had a good month and spend a bit extra...If that happens I can expect a call from the bank on the same day!...Beats me why yours didn't do the same!?
Sorry to hear such a crappy thing happened!...You must be gutted!:(

:saint:Always shred documents,my mate was done for a fair amount by people going through his bins! :saint: