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Got home yesterday and Wife asked why I had booked 5 internal Spanish flights and hotels (thought perhaps I was springing a surprise on her or up to no good) someone has cloned it and taken £1700.00.
I use it to purchase from companies I don’t have accounts with but not very often over the phone.
Fraud department said the usual way it’s done at the minute is when you download a new program etc for one month free thats the vehicle they use,haven’t done that but I am now suspicious of one transaction in a major store that might have been when it was done.Re: Credit Card Scam
A couple of years ago I lost £3000 on a debit card to a local Shell garage. They caught the bu88gers and slapped their wrists but my bank said they had got hundreds of thousands. I was supposedly in Canada but several of my customers have been in Phillipines, France and all over the world. Lloyds were great and refunded inside a week. I now have a £1000 limit credit card for fuel and parts and they ring me if they think there is a dodgy transaction.
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wifes card was cloned a couple of years back,we knew nothing about it until the bank rang us questioning my wifes unusual spending habit,got our money back within two weeks,could not fault our bank :tup: mind you we are a lot more cautious know,the scams that are going around are frightening 😯
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They are not always cloned. Mine was hit a few years back, thankfully Barclays spotted the dodgy transactions and blocked them.
My card had not been out the locked drawer it is kept in for months so it wasn’t skimmed anywhere.
They will literally number crunch and attempt to make a very small transaction with a vast amount of numbers. not all of the numbers on the card are unique. If that registers they know they have a ‘live’ card and then go for a bigger hit. My number was used in an attempt to place large online bets in the USA.
Unfortunately it meant I had to be issued with a new card but at least they managed to head it off at the pass. 8)
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My wifes card was cloned.
When it came to light I asked if the card details could be left with the criminal as it was cheaper.
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Found out on Tuesday and the account was credited today o can’t do much better that that.
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Happened me a few weeks back. I went over to the states to find my card wouldn’t work. They copped straight away and blocked it but caused me huge inconvenience when over there. Apparenty it was used in a petrol staion a few times in the Lebanon!
My company one was cloned they tested it first by doing to donations to cristian aid. Then clothes from a online designer shop, then from a spanish sports wear company and finally gym equipment fron usa.
Luckily I check the company account each day so was only hit with the designer clothes but that still took 4 weeks to refund the money.
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