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Card Skimmed Stansted Express Ticket collection

  • 24-05-2012 05:25PM
    #1
    sandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭


    Noticed some fradulent tranactions on card account and checked with bank.
    Card compromised. - No problem, refunded and new card on the way.

    Only place this particular card left my possession was stansted express ticket collection machine on railway platform. (you have to enter card to get tickets)

    Previous use was 10 days beforehand and ticket booked online 3 weeks beforehand. Fraudulent activity commences 5 hours after collection of train tickets and in Bishop's Stortford.

    The average person probably only thinks of card skimming at ATMs so this is as a warning to realise the skimming can take any place that reads the card and just to be extra careful as we enter holiday season.

    Think car parks, collecting cinema tickets/tarin tickets/event tickets, paying in any automatic machine such as auto fuel pumps or again tickets.


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  • #2
    Gatica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,302 ✭✭✭Gatica


    Thanks for the warning... hadn't thought of that before.


    btw, it's not necessarily that your card got compromised recently even if they've just started attempting to use it for fraudulent transactions. I hadn't used my card in ages and then suddenly someone bought BA flights with it! I was told they could've got it from an online transaction ages before and then used it later.


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