Your bank?

Had reason to be grateful for my bank's vigilance today, their fraud prevention department just rang me and told me someone was trying to hit my Visa card for two and a half grand today Needless to say the card is now destroyed and a new one on route, thank God they're so switched on

Lukey boy Bri, our Leigh got done for a few hundred over xmas too

M

Lucky indeed as you rightly say it's good to see that banks are now trying to avoid customers the heartache and stress of having to deal with fraudulent withdrawals from their accounts by preventing them from occuring in the first place.

very lucky bri. which bank are you with maybe i should change..... was stood in the bank arguing that the withdrawls werent mine, and as they hadnt cleared and the card they were made on was cancelled and destroyed why couldnt they just cancel them. Turns out they want to give your money away before you can do anyting about it. my bank is lloyds tsb. i also pay for fraud protection. fat lot of use that was.

Very lucky Brian. Just have to CLONE some other card now.

I'm with HSBC and I obviously have to be grateful, I don't know whether it was the large amount that flagged it up would they have spotted it had it been smaller amount/s who knows

Just to be better than the rest my card has been hit for £1900, 9th January 2009 I've cancelled card & left it with the fraud squad, the company they bought something from was www.microwarehouse.co.uk.

just had confirmation that the money will be refunded.

Hi Rich,sorry to hear you've been hit, I've just checked my records and I used PayPal to deal with Windrider for my glider and that Visa card doesn't relate to my PP account, and anyway I think part of the deal when using PP is that they don't disclose details to the vendor. So I think that blows that theory, back to the drawing board. I reckon with times being hard allround and companies going bust all over the place more people are getting tempted into the fraud game

Whoever it was had the goods shipped to somewhere in Hertfordshire, they wouldn't give me any detail due to the data protection act, funny that as someone gave these a***holes my details.

just had confirmation that the money will be refunded.

Hertfordshire hey, long way to walk with a couple of baseball bats
P.S. Good news about the refund

might have to buy a new model now, thought I'd lost that money.

Comp.arf 3m Yak I can see sitting nicely in my attic

Surprised you missed such a small amount Rich.

I know, quite suprised myself, thought I might have to up the first reserves

So when Gill says you're down the shed doing the laundry it's really money laundering hey?

what do you think I really got the laser for, rubber stamp manufacturing

It must be the season to be Jolly, and spend other peoples money. Just found out my emergency credit card has been done for almost 5 grand a week before christmas. It would have been more, but I only had a 5K limit on it. How on earth they got the numbers and details for it, I don;t know. I have only used it twice, ever! Once to buy a jet engine*, and the second to pay for a flight home about 3 years ago.....

Still, the nice man that the Halifax has sorted me out, it's all going to be wiped out, and their fraud team on the case..

Cheers
Andy

* yes it was an emergency...

FFS!

Just had a call from the Credit Card chaps again. Some little scrote has put another £2k on my replacement card without me knowing! I'm now officially suspecting all petrol stations as being dodgy. I have only used my replacement card for paypal transactions, and paying for diesel, and somehow my details and number has been stolen....

Andy

My eldest John, on holiday in Canada took only his debit card and £30 cash.
Idea, Draw out cash once there.
He phoned me by mobile to say the card had been rejected
Could I tell the bank to release it
I phoned the Bank (NatWest) and they said John himself must ring them
They gave me a number that got him straight thro
5 min later got a text
Sorted Ta

Pretty good I thort
PQ

Whilst in south wales last month I went to a hole in the wall and drew out some money the next day I noticed on my internet account that two lots of 30 pounds had been drawn out the next day,I had not used the account that day. On ringing the bank they infomed me that they had just stopped two further withdrawals one for £86 & one for over £200. I then informed them of the other two at £30 and they passed it all to their fraud team. Two days later I had the £60 refunded.So I am well pleased with the service. I now only use my visa card and transfer money from the debit card to the visa account to cover it. I find it safer to use this system.

Pete