DCI Gene Hunt

I truly do!

He's a complete star, first he's lunching in the finest restaurants London can offer, doing a bit of clothes shopping in Manchester and now he's just watched the FA semi final at Wembley and stayed in the Hilton as well

At first I was pissed off with having to phone AMEX and go through the whole 6-8 week dispute process, but now it's actually rather comical. So it's comforting to know that in these bleak recession ridden times at least one person is living the good life

Mystery plastic thief, I Gene Hunt salute you*

*However if I actually find you I reserve the right to kill you

MJW

The best things in life are free !!

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Listen DCI, I needed a few new threads as my old ones were looking a tad shabby and the chocolate on the pillow at the Hilton was very nice ..yum yum

jasey

Maybe it's Engers

DCI Gene Hunt

No problem, it is a tad strange that you go on holiday at the exact same time my plastic gets used so much it suffers third degree burns

DCI Gene Hunt

He feckin stole everything else ...... but I'd have expected to see an executive box rather than a couple of pitchside tickets

....... maybe that's his plan for the final

zeuss

iTrader: (2)

haha if anyone was to steal mine it would bounce straight away

boxst

Mine went straight to game and ordered an Xbox, then to Expedia and booked a holiday to the caribbean. A few mobile top-ups to tell his/her friends...

I only knew because Game wrote to me asking if I placed the order as the address was different.

Steve

HankScorpio

At least your thief is doing it in person, always amazes me the amount of this goes on where people use mail order.
You'd think that some agency could dress up as UPS and knock on the door "here's your delivery and erm... you're nicked"

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

How much has Swiss, I mean your thief, racked up so far?

DCI Gene Hunt

Let's just say so far in excess of £20K, I've just come off the phone from AMEX.... they're (wait for it).....

"Stopping the card" .......... G-E-N-I-U-S

Jamz3k

I'd actually find it hilarious if someone stole my wallet, there are 3 credit cards init and they are all MAXED as is my bank account! I'd probably throw him a fiver for the disappointment he'd get

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

It is pure coincidence that I was at the Hilton and bought some new clothes

RoShamBo

iTrader: (1)

Why would anyone book a holiday with a stolen credit card ! You would have to book it in the name of the person you stole the details from and even then you wouldn't get out the country without that persons passport !

I got my card cloned recently - bloke went on a spending spree in Italy of all places - despite being able to prove I was in the UK at the time of all the transactions HSBC still took nearly 3 months to sort it out.

Turbo2

A few years ago someone tried to buy a second-hand BMW from a Dealer on my wife's bank details. The Dealer was slightly suspicious as the buyer was brandishing a couple of cards and so he phoned Barclays for authorization. Barclays apparently tried to phone my wife to see if it was kosher, but her mobile was switched off and they left no message, so they just gave the Dealer the go-ahead to process the payment anyway, despite the Dealer being located 200 miles away from our address. Needless to say she got a shock when she checked her bank balance a couple of days later!

She's never bought a car in her life.

Leslie

Sorry to hear about all that. Will Amex refund all the cash he nicked before they stopped the card?

Les

Ant

How do they get around it with the chip and pin? Or do they get that aswell?

DCI Gene Hunt

Yep, that's why I'm chuckling about it all......

DCI Gene Hunt

It seems as if Swiss cloned the card completely!

boxst

I know. And mail order items (Xbox) where you have to put in a delivery address ...

MBNA were very good and just refunded everything immediately. The didn't seem as though they were going to follow up with the person who actually had the card details sadly.

Steve

richiewong

For everything else there's Mastercard

Leslie

Glad to hear it,he's a clever bloke that Swiss!

Les

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Actually I cloned YOU as well as the card. You might want to avoid the Manchester and west london area on any future travels as I punched the hilton receptionist in the nose, bloody nonce and left a few 'professional' escort ladies without a tip

DCI Gene Hunt

I've been truly cloned

Leslie

You weren't driving that Audi of his last night as well were you. It a tough little car to stand up to all that!

Les

FlightMan

Whatever happened to him?

coolangatta

I like 'amateur' escort ladies, they don't expect a tip

P.S. The only time that my (company) credit card was ever ripped off 'they' bought stationery ???

Jerome

How come, financial organisations can stop a card immediately when, for example, a payment doesn't go through and they want to annoy the cardholder, but seem unable to stop a card quickly when it's been stolen?

A few years back, a mate of mine's stolen card was used at the same petrol station, at virtually exactly the same time each morning, for 2 weeks before the card was stopped. Neither the bank nor the police seemed to care.

You'd think these days the banks would be a bit faster at stopping a stolen card.

Anyway, how do you get a stolen card to spend liberally on then? Can anyone supply me a link to one of these stolen card sites?

Ant

Not be long till people will be doing false claims. Drive 200miles spend loads of cash. Then report excessive spending on it.

boxst

That is something different though. Most of the fraud is via companies selling details and/or getting hacked. So they have the Credit Card number, CSV and a valid address but not the pin. Ideal for mail order, less convenient for popping into a shop and buying something.

Steve