Internet Fraud using debit/credit card

noah45

I noticed on our bank statement this morning

• 3 payments to a company I never heard of
• Payment to some foreign hotel
• 2 large debits at different Points of Sale
• €799 at an apple store

None of these are ours, all took place first week in March, some fu*ker seems to have bought an ipad. Went to bank who cancelled my debit/visa card and contacted fraud secrion in Dublin. They assure me that we should get it back.
I have used my card online for ebay, play.com, O2 credit, littlewoods etc over the years, but thats it.

How do the bank know that it wasn't me? and can they trace who used it?

I really hope I get it back

PandyAndy

No idea on how to get it back, but first thing to do as you use it online is to run virus/spyware scans on ALL your PCs. If nothing is found then reformat them.

daithijjj

Very similar to this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/apple-identity-theft-credit-card_n_817267.html

Any locations on the transactions?. These guys were travelling across the country (hotel bill?).

noah45

yup like that

799 to apple
45 to a german hotel
189 to french train

bast@rds
I'm so annoyed

chris85

Fraud department will sort it out for you. In my experience they are quite good and quite quick also.

noah45

I hope so, mortgage due. I thought the girl in bank here said that I should hear from the fraud dept 'within 24hrs', but I haven't.
Did I hear wrong?
Or was she saying that she would hear from them?

Anyone know?

oldyouth

I got done too. It was on my Visa bill this week

€799 Apple
€399 French Rail
€139 French Hotel

noah45

Very similar to mine!
Apple are doing well out of it anyway

IpreDictDeatH

My sister got done last week also. She only ever used the card online, and at that rarely. Although she did run a scan after she found out and sure enough there was a virus. I thought the whole virus thing was just a big myth, and that security was just too tight for anybody to get your details from your pc. Im wrong obviously.

Scary biscuits.

shrapnel222

they don't get the details from your PC and it doesn't matter whether you use your card online or not (if you're just an average joe). hackers hack into a company with poor security, steal the credit card details of thousands of people, then sell them on (or not as the case may be), clone cards and then use them.

BuffyBot

they don't get the details from your PC

Backdoor trojans, keyloggers..oh yes, they can.

shrapnel222

BuffyBot wrote: »

Backdoor trojans, keyloggers..oh yes, they can.

of course they can, i'm just saying that 99% of the time, this is large scale fraud where details have been stolen en masse from one place, and not stolen from individuals PC by PC.