Keep Your Eyes Peeled - Page 2

vera · 05-01-2010, 09:31

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.

jaysay · 05-01-2010, 09:58

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

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

BERNADETTE · 05-01-2010, 12:20

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

katex · 05-01-2010, 13:12

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

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

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.

Benipete · 05-01-2010, 13:30

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Originally Posted by katex

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 ..

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

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 ...

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"

, "but someone has just drawn £500 from your account using your debit card"

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 ...

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 ? ...

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 ...

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.

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Barrie Yates · 05-01-2010, 15:41

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.

BERNADETTE · 05-01-2010, 16:59

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.

emamum · 05-01-2010, 20:08

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.

BERNADETTE · 05-01-2010, 20:45

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Originally Posted by emamum

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.

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

mallard · 05-01-2010, 21:00

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

Less · 06-01-2010, 13:33

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Originally Posted by katex

She is fairly sure took purse to work, as used Boots card to scrape ice off her car window

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.

webglynne · 06-01-2010, 17:01

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

If Mr Microsoft can do it!

katex · 06-01-2010, 17:06

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Originally Posted by Less

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.

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

katex · 06-01-2010, 19:52

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Originally Posted by katex

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

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.

cashman · 06-01-2010, 19:54

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Originally Posted by katex

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.

Glad she got her dosh kate.

hope bernie does also