MY00PPP

wierd thing being, my wife and I were just talking about the tkmax frauds in the news.

she checked her online statement and 10 transactions for flight tickets (and a dating agency that she claims is a fraud too!) over the last month.

not saying hers is related to tkmax but just spooky timing!

my dad had his cc company call him re a doggy transaction ( electrical goods in rome) and managed to stop it going through. his had been skimmed it would seem.

so two people I know in 3 weeks... any others had the same happen to them?.

is it really that widespread now?.

cheers in advance.
Rich

Trout

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The TK Maxx thing is really old news - I have no idea why this has only just hit the UK news.

I had dinner with the CEO of a card issuer in the US back in January and he was in the middle of reissuing all their cards.

Rannoch

fivetide

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Even BBC admits they announced it 2 months ago.

Only problem i had was a apparent train ticket costing 150 notes bought in Peterborough! Weird one for my Switch card and took a while to get the cash back from the bank as it wasn't an actual credit card but did it in the end.

always check my statements.

5t.

Probein

A friend of mine had several thousand stolen from his C/C a while ago. he said it was really easy to get it sorted with the credit card company.. he just told them it had been nicked, they looked through the records and agreed and he didn't pay a penny (as you'd expect).

Bram

The truth is we all are and have been paying it through high interest charges.

philc

happened a couple of times; first time it was somebody using the cc in Malaysia - no money lost, just required a change of cc by the bank; second time was payment of a deposit on a houselot of carpet and the company went bankrupt before delivery - had to provide proof of the bankruptcy to the cc company and then I got the money refunded

Moonloops

No, we are not all paying for it, only those who use credit cards..

Bram

That's a bit obvious moonloops

Moonloops

Not for some folks on here

David Lock

I was done for £1500. I did some research and am 99% sure it started with a phone purchase with a small company which had links to another company based in Wembley. Card was used to pay college fees and then a string of parking fines. "Cardholder" gave a Wembley address with my house number and Postcode! Police didn't want to know and bank were incredibly slow to do anything despite my giving them the full monty. Got a refund after about 8 weeks.

XRS

I discovered I had "invested" $500 with an on-line gambling company. When I spoke to my CC company there was another on its way. They handled it very quickly and effectively, and I now have a new card and no gambling debts

fivetide

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Actually the people paying for it are anyone with a bank account (charges, low interest fees etc you name a way they make money versus a way they lose money and you are making it up somewhere) and anyone using any other financial service really, car loan by lloyds? yup etc etc.

5t.

ricardo

My card provider sent me a letter with a list of suspicious transactions, asking me to ring them if I thought they were fraudulent. Once I rang they gave me more details - they were all attempted online purchases (e.g. Pixmania) using my card number, but the larger ones hadn't gone through due to not meeting the authentication requirements. Dunno what that means, perhaps the fraudster didn't have the security number, or the provider wouldn't accept the goods being sent to other than my registered address.

I'm very careful with cards, and even more careful with online security/phishing/firewalls/trojans and so on, so I still haven't puzzled out what might have happened. It may even have been that the card details got out through a call centre or other leak.

ScuuBdoo

someone got my details and spent 1400EURO in an online Casino. The debt was wiped from my card thank god. Now I check my statement every month.

pslewis

Some bugger has bought a nice new LG Plasma on my account

MattW

Started checking my statements now. Found an online retailer had made a mistake and charged me £94 and not 94p!!

jfrf

dont think this is masively common.

only had one dodgy item go through recently, out of my many thousands of transactions.
I have probably owned about 10 different cards as well.

This only occcurred after I visited Germany and must have been skimmed at a bar/restaurant there.

Chris L

As Rannoch says - the TJX thing is quite old now. The original incident, when most of the card details were stolen, happened in 2003!

What is more worrying is that they simply do not know for sure exactly how many cards have been compromised. Putting the financial loss to one side for the moment, the damage done to their reputation may be irreparable.

Does go someway to vindicate what IT security consultants (such as myself) have been saying for years - this stuff must be taken seriously. Just throwing money at it doesn't work - you have to know what you're doing and understand what you need to protect.

Trout

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It's still in the BBC news headlines as if it is new news - duh!

Flaps

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I haven't but my Dad's been scammed twice now.

DeltaBravo 9

i've just been refunded £1550 by barclays , they took some cinvincing in the end and it took a month to sort out , i was not a happy bunny !!

The Zohan

Yes, company card and around 1.5k, only came to light when it reached the card limit.

Looks like it was copied (skimmed) when in Manchester - Chinatown at a well known restraunt. I made a programme (film) for Barclaycard on this subject a few years back and spent some time in their fraud department looiking into different types of fraud. Skimming is just so easy and it only takes a matter of minutes to produce a dummy card - usually in the far East.

Resterunts and pertrol ststaion are prime locations for this sort of fraud but it can happen in most places - criminals get into these places so they can easily skim cards as they are easy targets and a fast sturnover of people, ofern in a hurry or distracted.

All you need is a card reader, laptop and software at one end and the abilikty to cone the cards at the other.

Saw a veriety of forged/cloned cards, some good quality some not so. Some with info for barclycard but on another type/make of card.

Brit_in_Japan

Happened to me some years ago, before chip and PIN. A new card was intercepted in the post and so they just put any old signature on the back and used it for a purchases less than 50 quid. They police actually caught them with the card, so justice does get done sometimes. They first denied it so I had to give a statement to the police and I had to make preparations to take time off work and be a witness in court. They changed their plea to guilty at the very last moment and it would serve them right if the book was flung more forcefully at them as a result of wasting everyone's time.

Hanley

I've just looked at my statement and someone in France has charged £14 on my CC for World of Warcraft, interestingly enough the wife used it at TK Max about 3 weeks ago

Scoob99

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Mine was skimmed and copied at mt my local Shell garage the cheeky barstrwaeds spent 3k on in car Hi-Fi but it was delivered to my house, rang the shop where it came from the *******s even knew my D.O.B. and house address, but they left a house phone number which was false and a mobile that some **** answered when the police rang it and traced it, the thing that peed me off the police did not tell me the outcome.
Cheers
Colin

Simes777

Yep, got 3 transactions recently which my cc company sorted without any fuss.

1. £800 of Tommy Hilfiger clothes online from Germany
2. £1900 on a holiday with Lastminute.com
3. £8 Kengestion charge