Beware of card skimming scam! ONGOING! all the time!

suitseir

It is happening again! Will this ever end! Surfers getting your PIN number while you are standing innocently in a queue.

It happened a friend of mine this weekend. She has just discovered a few thousand Euro gone from her account. She and her husband still have their cards!

Just wondering what comeback they have with their Bank?

Jaysis!

I was just trying to get a look down yore top, ffs.

Gone Drinking

Moar personal space, for the spacer!

dsmythy

suitseir wrote: »

It is happening again! Will this ever end! Surfers getting your PIN number while you are standing innocently in a queue.

It happened a friend of mine this weekend. She has just discovered a few thousand Euro gone from her account. She and her husband still have their cards!

Just wondering what comeback they have with their Bank?

I nearly had personal experience of this in so far as I was in a well know retail outlet and this guy was literally sitting on my shoulder as I was paying for my purchases....so before I fed in my number, I turned around and SHOUTED at him (no manners me) and said to GIVE ME SOME PERSONAL SPACE. I also informed the girl at the till that I will refuse to pay, unless she makes sure that I am given the same personal space to allow me continue. He took off like a bat out of hell. So that is now going to be my moodus operandi. I will let a roar out of me like a MAD WOMAN should I feel threatened again!

:eek:

/walks away slowly

Solvo Slep

suitseir wrote: »

I nearly had personal experience of this in so far as I was in a well know retail outlet and this guy was literally sitting on my shoulder as I was paying for my purchases....

Are you sure it was a man and not, you know, a parrot?

General Zod

suitseir wrote: »

It is happening again! Will this ever end! Surfers getting your PIN number while you are standing innocently in a queue.

It happened a friend of mine this weekend. She has just discovered a few thousand Euro gone from her account. She and her husband still have their cards!

Just wondering what comeback they have with their Bank?

your friend got her card skimmed somewhere, and as a result you shout at people near you lining up to pay also. If that was me I'd flee the store too out of mortification.

BTW it's modus, not moodus, unless you're a cow.

although....

mikom

suitseir wrote: »

Surfers getting your PIN number while you are standing innocently in a queue.

Damn surfers..... I blame "Point break" and those knobs from the Denny advert.

General Zod

Mikoms ghost... wrote: »

Damn surfers..... I blame "Point break" and those knobs from the Denny advert.

Do you think you look like a posh student?

Amalgam

---- just needs a new card and a chat with the bank..

suitseir

Yea, you guys (I'm presuming) are right. Stupid post to put up!

Shouldn't have bothered!

And I know it is modus.....typing error!


Bye bye!!

mikom

General Zod wrote: »

Do you think you look like a posh student?

ARRRGGHHH.........

TheIrishGrover

suitseir wrote: »

It is happening again! Will this ever end! Surfers getting your PIN number while you are standing innocently in a queue.

It happened a friend of mine this weekend. She has just discovered a few thousand Euro gone from her account. She and her husband still have their cards!

Just wondering what comeback they have with their Bank?

Ohhhh Brody, you and your wacky crew are at it again I see

BluesBerry

General Zod wrote: »

your friend got her card skimmed somewhere, and as a result you shout at people near you lining up to pay also. If that was me I'd flee the store too out of mortification.

BTW it's modus, not moodus, unless you're a cow.

although....

There is a new thing they are doing now they will get your pin number inside the shop and out in the car park a woman with a map will distract you asking for directions sitting in your passanger seat while another person gets you card out of your purse and puts the purse back so you dont realise its gone for ages

Thats way tescos self service now wont let you use you credit card its cash only at least in my local tesco

AnonoBoy

It's simple enough to cover the keypad when you put your PIN in.

If they can't see the PIN their swiped card is useless. Is that right? I dunno. I cover my PIN though just in case.

AnonoBoy

BluesBerry wrote: »

There is a new thing they are doing now they will get your pin number inside the shop and out in the car park a woman with a map will distract you asking for directions sitting in your passanger seat while another person gets you card out of your purse and puts the purse back so you dont realise its gone for ages

Why would you let someone sit into the passenger seat of your car if you didn't know them?

BluesBerry

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Why would you let someone sit into the passenger seat of your car if you didn't know them?

I didn't, but it did happen an eastern european woman pretends to be lost when you are in your car she will open the passenger door and ask for directions and worm her way into the car use the map as a cover while she gets purse then hands it to an accomplice with her which takes out credit card and then puts back purse so the person hustled is oblivious to what had happened

dsmythy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Why would you let someone sit into the passenger seat of your car if you didn't know them?

Depends on her level of hot i guess.

Roro4Brit

It happened to my OH about 3 weeks ago. He just logged in to make sure our mortgage was there and his A/C was empty! Three transactions of 600e, 600e and 800e :eek:


This must have happened over Xmas! Turns out they used the transactions to place online bets on Bet365, the guy in the bank said they must not have realised any winnings went back into the account it was placed from!

Three days later my OH got a lodgement for 2100e from the website into his account! I went mental and was practically spending the money on a trip to New York within minutes. The bank ended up taking the winnings back though :mad: Man was I pissed. Something to do with good faith, fraud bla bla bla. I think we should have got to keep it.

So these's scammers are good a gambling but fraud, not so much.

Overheal

Honestly people of Earth:

COVER YOUR PIN NUMBER AT THE MACHINE

ATM Scams are hard to pull off without your PIN. You Have a Wallet. Use it. Cover up your Hand. Secure your PIN. Youre intelligent enough where youre at the point where you dont need to be staring at a 9 digit pad to insert a 4 digit code. Virtually every ATM scan involves a Pinhole camera of some form which is trained on the keypad.

As well as that I have a hard time trusting card readers without first trying adamantly to rip them out of the wall.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/atm/atmcamera.asp

Amalgam

If possible, never let the card out of your sight, there's no reason for it to be.

More and more, scams involve staff.

Chairman Meow

Scammers need to earn a living too, for ffs...

Overheal

You can also set up Email and Text alerts through your bank.

I get one anytime theres been a Direct Deposit (Payday! \o/), A withdrawal/transaction exceeding $100, or any of my account details (Address, Email, Phone Number) have been altered, etc.

Make sure you go through the Email Verification process for online banking also. Lest someone get in.

TobyZiegler

Happened to my friend recently and they took a few thousand. But he got it all back relatively quickly from the bank.

I think it depends on whether the person can be seen using the card on cctv or are traceable by what they buy online etc by the guards.

patmac

A "heads up" for you and any of your friends who may be regular customers at Tesco
Over the last month I became the victim of a clever scam whilst out shopping. Simply going out to get some bits and bobs has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you! Here's how the scam works:

Two seriously good looking 18 or 19 year old girls come over to your car as you are loading your stuff into the boot. They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windowlene, with their cleavage almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts. It is impossible not to look. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say "No" and instead ask you for a lift to another shopping centre.
You agree and they get in the back seat. On the way, they start having sex with each other. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and performs oral sex on you, while the other one steals your wallet.

I had my wallet stolen on January 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, three times just yesterday, and very likely again this upcoming weekend as soon as I can buy some more wallets.
Please pass this message on to all the men you know to warn them about this scam.

pickarooney

Roro4Brit wrote: »

It happened to my OH about 3 weeks ago. He just logged in to make sure our mortgage was there and his A/C was empty! Three transactions of 600e, 600e and 800e :eek:


This must have happened over Xmas! Turns out they used the transactions to place online bets on Bet365, the guy in the bank said they must not have realised any winnings went back into the account it was placed from!

Three days later my OH got a lodgement for 2100e from the website into his account! I went mental and was practically spending the money on a trip to New York within minutes. The bank ended up taking the winnings back though :mad: Man was I pissed. Something to do with good faith, fraud bla bla bla. I think we should have got to keep it.

So these's scammers are good a gambling but fraud, not so much.

Let me see if I understand this... Someone took 2000 euros from your account. You got it refunded with an extra 100 euros and you were going to spend your 'winnings' on a trip to New York?

And as for Tesco discontinuing credit card payments because 'some easter European woman' sat in the passenger seat of someone's car and used a map to steal his bank card... for Christ's sake people, do yourselves a favour and read your posts back out loud then delete them.

extra-ordinary_

Roro4Brit wrote: »

It happened to my OH about 3 weeks ago. He just logged in to make sure our mortgage was there and his A/C was empty! Three transactions of 600e, 600e and 800e...This must have happened over Xmas! Turns out they used the transactions to place online bets on Bet365,...

:pac::cool:

Odysseus

pickarooney wrote: »

for Christ's sake people, do yourselves a favour and read your posts back out loud then delete them.

Ah come on be fair, if people started to do that. I would stop checking out AH, there would be no other reason to visit.

AnonoBoy

BluesBerry wrote: »

I didn't, but it did happen an eastern european woman pretends to be lost when you are in your car she will open the passenger door and ask for directions and worm her way into the car use the map as a cover while she gets purse then hands it to an accomplice with her which takes out credit card and then puts back purse so the person hustled is oblivious to what had happened

Some people are just born suckers I guess. If somebody I didn't know got into a car I was driving they'd be told to **** off in no uncertain terms.

I don't have too much sympathy for people who are too thick to cover the keypad on the ATM and then let a stranger sit in their car asking for directions withouth thinking "Hmmm.... where's my handbag?"

Overheal

Also depending on your bank you can have anywhere from a 4 to a 12 digit PIN.