Last night checked my account and someone has been taking money out. They had used it to o2 prepay.
So thought just let you know and to check your bank. As last night bank told me that there has been loads like this.
Oh and now I can't use my card. Great

 

which bank?

 

Some one did this to my MBNA card when I had it couple of years ago. 2 £50 top ups to T-Mobile. Card was cut up when I received it as was only got for a balance transfer offer so not sure how they got the details. Luckily as it was a credit card, they refunded it.

 

wnkers there seems to be a lot of it going on.

 

i had this once some *** head went and spent my rent money with my details thay brought a laptop over internet i was lucky that nationwide looked at it and said they can see its rather a large ammount to be coming out my account as iv only ever brought stuff to value of bought £10 on this card,

anyway they refunded me my money and bout a week later had a missed delivery went to collect brand new laptop??? turns out the company they had brought the laptop from even though you can select a different delivery address will only ever deliver to the card holders address. anyway went to bank with laptop and left it with them did think bout keeping it but would only make me as bad as the person trying to rip me off.

 

Hang on.......I thought the very expensive that we paid for chip-and-pin was supposed to stop all this?

 

Where there is a will ther is a way unfortnately.

I had to have an Experian check a few years back for a job and within a week of that someone took £50 to bet on an online poker site. Got the money back though

Oh and at that point i hadn't even used the credit card it came out of

 

chip and pin is flawed, and the only reason it exists is to take the blame away from the banks....

 

have a read of this:

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...em-flawed.html

 

That o2 prepay is well known, I had it last year. They take a nominal amount, say £10.00 and if you don't notice they then clear out the account!

 

Always seems to be the phone top-ups. Both my debit and credit cards have been hit in the last 6 months.

Pretty sure its via ordering on-line, as you give them all they need each time you purchase something.

 

Always take a couple of payments on phone top-ups then they clear the account out if card isn't stopped.

My daughter had this happen last year ... 2 small amounts removed on O2 ... as she spotted it straight away she stopped it and had the amounts refunded. Bank said that she would have been looking at an empty account had she not done anything.

It costs too much to chase down these fraudsters so they carry on taking £millions each year .. they are the untouchables and cause misery for the average honest person who gets hit.

Check your account daily!

 

Someone tried to buy a single on i-tunes (79p) using my details but Bank stopped it after calling me to check. As above "they" make a small transaction then clear the account if it's not spotted

TX.

 

It is bad as this type of thing shouldn't happen. I knowits only £15, but inmagine it was if they had done it to loads of people.

But now cant use card for payments, and to be honest its the only card I have as dont really like credit cards, so now screwed.

 

my work mate got hit for £3k+ on his current acc...and they then had the cheek to phone his bank up and ask them to transfer funds from his creditcard to his current acc !!!!(obviousely they decline ...then rang him to confirm).

the bank pick up the bill though so his lost nothing

 

Yeah they don't always start with small amounts. happened to me a few years back, had about £2500 taken. completely emptied my account. Showed up on the account as someone buying foreign currency in cambodia, starting with large amounts, then getting smaller and smaller until there was nothing left. was pretty miffed when my card got declined at McDonalds buying a cheeseburger, as I knew I had more than 99p in the account...

Anyway, turns out it was the local shell garage. they had repositioned their overhead camera's to read peoples card and chip and pin details. Local rag said they did over about 2000 people. funny thing is though, they got let off in court over a technicality, got their jobs back at shell, then did the same scam again 2 months later!!

 

Got done myself by someone in America buying trainers off ebay, did me for £300 then it took me 2 weeks to get my money back, what really made me laugh was when I rang the bank regarding the transactions they asked me " Are you sure you were not in america during the time the transactions were made" even though on my statement on the same day at 10am I was in central London and had used an ATM so it wasnt rocket science to work out unless I had a time machine there was no way I could be in 2 different countries on the same day.