Debit card cloning - Iv'e been done

[dig dug dan]

went online to my bank details, and noticed my account looking low

went back as far as february, where i noticed two transactions of cash withdrawals in south africa!
then after that, they were all at tesco, one amount for £605.
I immediately phoned the bank, and they stopped the card, but due to the bank holiday, i have to wait a week to get the new one.
I queried if i was going to get the money back, and they said "possibly".
My card has been cloned, and it was done at a Tesco petrol station. I suspect a skimming device was used at the pay at pump.
Being a business account, i can prove i don't use that card in store, and i wasn't in africa.
I also rang tesco to get information as to where these transactions took place, and they were done in Coventry and Leciester. And a fuel purchase in Holyhead of all places!

any one else been done like this? did they get the money back?
They have taken £1800 in all, which to me is a lot of money!

[Dave_L]

Blimey! No, not been done (yet)

Hope you get it back Dan. You should do.

[Tony McC]

I got done late summer last year. 300 and odd quid on bloody shoes at some swanky place in that London, and the car insurance on a BMW in Reading. However, in my case, it was my bankers (A&L) that noticed the strange transactions and phoned me within 24 hours to check the purchases were valid.

The card was stopped immediately, I had to fill-in and sign a form stating the transactions were not authorised by me, and the money was back in my account within a couple of days. It took a couple of days more for a new card and number to arrive.

Petrol in Holyhead? The immediate assumption is our itinerant chums returning home, but they'd fill up in Dublin or Holyhead, where fuel is around 30% cheaper, unless , of course, they just thought, "feck it: some other poor sod is paying for it!"

[lutonlagerlout]

i thought that was the souvenir postacrads you bought at the ancient egypt exhibition??
lol
i have had a credit card done by orange of all people,when i told visa they said no way would it happen at orange but 3 months later 60 staff got sacked for using customers credit card details to access online porn
human nature i spose
i avoid using debit cards like the plague dan as you are much more exposed if it goes pear shaped, plus i get airmiles with my amex card
LLL

[Rich H]

My LLoyds card got done a couple of years ago. Form filled in, money refunded, no problem. The transactions were all at cash points at the Meadowhall centre in Sheffield.

[dig dug dan]

sounds like i should get the money back ok. just the time delay in doing so.

can't make out how they used a cloed card without the pin at tesco though!!

[matt h]

daughter got done a while back and the money took three weeks to come, but at least she got it back... they cloned two cash points near our local garage, and one of the female tellers was assaulted at three am on saturday morning... what the f in el is goin on..

[flowjoe]

I got done late summer last year. 300 and odd quid on bloody shoes at some swanky place in that London,

I was working in London on Saturday on a church in Chelsea, i thought i would nip off and get the lads a brew mid morning.

As i walked past about fifteen interioir design studio`s (shops to the rest of us) i eventually came to a Starbucks, i was in turmoil whether to have the caramel and wolfnipple chip latte or the roast chestnut and hedgehog frappe when i realised i had left the deeds to my house at home and i could not raise the small fortune required, so i left.

Not being stupid i thought i would ask a taxi driver where the nearest greasy thumb cafe could be found, but unfortunately not being able to speak Polish proved to be my downfall and the lads went thirsty until i sold a kidney and purchased a pot of tea at the Oxford services.

Happy days

[matt h]

lol,been there, sometimes you just have to take it on the chin:D

[islander]

sounds like i should get the money back ok. just the time delay in doing so.

can't make out how they used a cloed card without the pin at tesco though!!

Card skimmers often have a pinhole camera built into them so that the perps can see the PIN as you enter it.

General advice is don't use a card machine if you don't like the look of it, and notify the bank if they're open or the police if they aren't, and never allow a card to be removed from your sight to a back office or whatever.

I hope all goes well with recovering your money, Dan.

[Bob_A]

Missus got done about a month ago.
We received an automated telephone message from her bank saying they believed her account had been compromised and to press'1' for this and '2' for that.
Thinking that the call itself was a hoax we hang up and rang the bank.
Turned out the call was real, my missus had withdawn some money the day before but on the same day someone had withdrawn 200 Australian dollars (£93) in Australia. They tried it again and the banks system detected it and suspended the account. Credit to the bank they promptly sorted out a new card and full refund.
Bank wouldn't/couldn't say how security was breached, I thought chip & pin was meant to sort that out.
Can't prove it, only local gossip but we suspect the local petrol station was on the fiddle. It seems too much of a coincidence that there were many victims in such a short space of time that all used 'that' garage.

[James.Q]

there is a saying about paying peanuts you only get monkeys but sometimes there clever monkeys . minimum wage nite shift garage ? computer savy , your card , happy days

[matt h]

found a pile of credit card blanks in the road outside my old house and reported it to the feds, but they werent interested,, its obvious that some one local has been pullin a fast one but as per usual if they arent caught red handed with their pants down the law do nowt.