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Love to get my hands on these scum that scam you
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 3 Jun 2014 16:28 |
Went out about 11:00am and withdrew £40 from cash machine at local post office, used cash to do a bit of shopping, got back home about an hour later. |
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supercrutch | Report | 3 Jun 2014 16:34 |
Our card was cloned at a garage and luckily odd transactions were picked up by the bank too. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 3 Jun 2014 16:35 |
So sorry to hear you've been robbed, but well done to your bank for spotting the out of character transactions! |
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Mersey | Report | 3 Jun 2014 16:37 |
Sorry to hear this OFITG :-( |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 Jun 2014 16:37 |
I assume somebody has informed the post office where the cash machine is? |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 3 Jun 2014 16:41 |
I had something similar a few years back with a card that hadn't been used other than inside the bank at the counter, for over two years. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 3 Jun 2014 17:12 |
We've had a credit card cloned before but recently OH had an odd experience with his debit card. Bank sent a new one just before his old one expired. He used it once in the ATM to withdraw £50 and later that day the bank rang to say they had put a stop on the card. The day BEFORE he used it for the first time it had been used in America to withdraw 300 dollars, then there was an attempt to use it again in America at about the same time OH was withdrawing money here. That's when the computer flagged it up. How could that have happened? |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 Jun 2014 17:46 |
As IGP says it need not have happened that day Vera, sometimes they aquire the information they need from somewhere or other then sit on it for a while before using it. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 3 Jun 2014 18:01 |
James, |
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Annx | Report | 3 Jun 2014 20:19 |
That was my first thought too Glasgowlass. A few years ago a message was left on my answerphone by someone saying they were my Bank Manager and to ring him on a mobile number. I thought this was a bit odd but thought it might be because it was very urgent!! I always use a different branch to where I opened my account, so don't know the name of the manager there. I decided to ring the branch and ask them who the manager was but they couldn't put me through as he was in a meeting. I rang again later and he confirmed he had left the message. I soon told him he had cost me 2 phone calls to check he was legit and worry that something had happened with my bank account. l told him I thought they expected the public to be careful yet he was tempting them to be otherwise by using a mobile number they did not show anywhere. He had no answer to that. What was the call about? They wanted to 'help' me invest some dosh from a cheque that had been paid into my account!!!! (for the commission no doubt!) |
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wisechild | Report | 4 Jun 2014 06:49 |
I am so lucky with my bank. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 4 Jun 2014 07:16 |
wisechild .............. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Jun 2014 09:02 |
GlasgowLass - I have heard of that scam so I never reply to any request received by phone or text relating to my finances if it is a call I tell them I will call them back and I then do so using the numbers I have from official correspondence to call them back, I do the same with texts. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 4 Jun 2014 09:33 |
So glad to hear that James, there are just so many scammers out there. |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 4 Jun 2014 09:55 |
Don't any of you think when you want to use an ATM to try and pull the front off the machines. |
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Persephone | Report | 4 Jun 2014 11:02 |
A lot of our ATMs have a cover on a hinge over the numbers.. many a person has been zapped by hidden camera re their pin number. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 4 Jun 2014 11:23 |
Its the false cover on the ATM. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 4 Jun 2014 11:57 |
I have spent the morning visiting every site that I have purchased anything from over the past 12 months to make sure that I have no financial information stored on them and closed accounts I have no intention of using again or have any concerns about, such as E-Bay and PayPal. |
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Carol 430181 | Report | 4 Jun 2014 13:10 |
I had a card that I did not use very often, have a feeling I left it in machine at a store. Anyway someone used it but had to laugh, they booked a Travel Lodge for the night had flowers and a Chinese take-a-way delivered. Took ages to prove it was not me. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 4 Jun 2014 13:49 |
But don't you just get sick of having to do all this to protect your own hard earned money from scum who can't be bothered to work for a living. |
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