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Card Skimming in Galway City Supermarket

Sponge Bob

Not Dunnes Tesco or a German store and apparently the card data was intercepted by skimming INSIDE the store or else by installing a listening device on the modem .

Both laser and credit cards are affected.

Her Bank just rang my sister and her card is now being cancelled and reissued.

Has anyone else heard this story or been contacted by their banks ?

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Madame Razz

im glad we're finally naming them, i just rang them and dint get much satisfaction 2bh.

It was very easilly done apparently, a child could have done it!! Personally as a manger id be fairly suspicious of anybody mssing with the shop tills but there you go.

I hate that shop even more now:mad:

ukgalwaymcguire

GerardKeating wrote: »

See the article in Galway Indo. It names a store on Cappagh road.

not sure about cappagh road, wouldnt think so.
but i know who it is and im not afraid too name and shame then
JOYCES in knocknacarra..
i have a NEW LASER CARD, WHICH I HAVE USED ONCE..
only once!! in JOYCES KNOCKNACARRA
got a call from AIB today its been cloned... ie skimmed
so theres only one place i used it.. joyces..
and im calling the manager about now as well

Madame Razz

well, i was told it was said supermarket, and it was too, its like the only laser transaction of mine in the last month.

GerardKeating

Bass Cadet wrote: »

Can someone PM me the name of this store that got skimmed?? I have an idea but would like to know for sure if I've been done aswell

See the article in Galway Indo. It names a store on Cappagh road.

pzer

AIB as well and got the call on Tues night, i have used atm and laser in said Knocknacarra store so must be there. Nothing taken off me yet but am couple days without atm card which i dont really mind seeing as what has happened others. Think ill use cash anymore where possible. Always figured that using laser in shop where you can see the transaction happen would leave ya safe enough but apparently not........

galah

Same happened to fiancee - AIB card got cancelled, phone call today, but luckily, they noticed before anyone could take out money...

Nothing is safe anymore...If you use the ATM, they'll get ya, if you use Laser in the shop they'll get ya, and if you withdraw money from the bank (provided you can work around those stupid bank opening times), they'll probably rob ya on the way to the car...

Madame Razz

IRONICALLY enough, I just had a call from AIB to ask could they cancel my card as they were aware that my details had been acquired as a result of this scam. Thankfully no money was taken from my account.

I am now almost certain that this was as a result of using my lasercard in said supermarket, as I rarely use the card anyway, and used it there on a once in a blue moon shop there in July!

Madame Razz

We'll all be back physically withdrawing our money from our actual banks and using cheques!!!

Tis feckin safer methinks!!!

kayos

To be honest with both these scams coming together I can see the use of laser cards dropping for a while and people going back to the good old cash method.

If they do name the store in Galway and it does turn out to be an inside job by staff I would expect them to start losing a lot of business.

DeadSkin

CDog wrote: »

Surely most of the cash registers in these big stores are under ctv surveilence all the time?? This should mean that whoever tampered with the card machines were caught on camera!

Perhaps we have to wait for the next episode of crimewatch to see the footage! Maybe the gardai should think about putting up a 'Wanted' website with footage from these and other crimes!

Just an idea sorry for wandering off topic!

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Gardaí have recovered CCTV images of suspects from in-store cameras.

CDog

Surely most of the cash registers in these big stores are under ctv surveilence all the time?? This should mean that whoever tampered with the card machines were caught on camera!

Perhaps we have to wait for the next episode of crimewatch to see the footage! Maybe the gardai should think about putting up a 'Wanted' website with footage from these and other crimes!

Just an idea sorry for wandering off topic!

spurscormac

If this report from the IT is true, then I'm beginning to question my original suspicions as to the shop in question.
I know someone who's card was also compromised, who does not shop there at all.
So if it's just one shop in question, and an insider job, then it would mean trying to pin down the shops we have both used.

I have a suspect shop already in my head, but couldn't be sure, so am not willing to say anything on here.

Madame Razz

Pm me too...Im getting kinda worried by all this....

Bass Cadet

Can someone PM me the name of this store that got skimmed?? I have an idea but would like to know for sure if I've been done aswell

DeadSkin

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

Great, so now we have the Russian mafia wandering the streets of Galway. Lovely.

ROFL

SimpleSam06

DeadSkin wrote: »

Source

Great, so now we have the Russian mafia wandering the streets of Galway. Lovely.

kayos

DeadSkin wrote: »

Source

Woud not surprise me at all in that shop....

DeadSkin

Detectives are working on the theory that somebody in the Galway shop may have facilitated the card skimming for an Eastern European crime syndicate.

Gardaí do not believe the payment terminals were tampered with. Gardaí have recovered CCTV images of suspects from in-store cameras.

Source

GerardKeating

Jugs82 wrote: »

2 girls in the office have had calls over the last hour or so letting them know that their cards had been skimmed and in one case that a withdrawl had been made in Canada

Both shop regularly in the Knocknacarra area

Interesting, a collegue also had some "canadian" action recently, Bank contaced him yesterday.

big b

Got a call from AIB yesterday to say they had stopped my laser card & were sending out a new one today & a new pin in a couple of days.
Told me there was an uncleared debit against my card & I should check my balance online frequently. If that or any other transactions aren't mine, I have to go into any AIB branch & fill out a fraud form to get the money refunded.
Meantime, if I want cash, I have to take photographic ID into an AIB branch along with my existing card.

I used my laser card in a retail outlet in the west of the city for the first time last weekend........

SimpleSam06

As far as I know either these machines phone home or someone has to come in and pick up the chip themselves to read the details. Either way it should be eminently traceable. What I want to know is who is responsible for it? Are we talking eastern european crime gangs or local talent? Its a very complex thing to put together, requiring a lot of organisation and technical sophistication, so I would say international anyway.

spurscormac

To add to my c card, BoI rang me yesterdya to tell me they were blocking my laser card as a precaution and were sending me out a new one.
The person who rang me gave me the line that they couldn't say due to Garda investigation, which is fine, I understand that.

What I am happy about is the fact that BoI seem to be acting proactively about it.
Is anyone out there from AIB or other banks experiencing any issues and have they been contacted by their bank?

stepbar

The debit card frauds are still in the process of being investigated by the Gardai so it would be best not to name any shops etc at this point. You will hear the banks reiterate this point as well which is fair considering the case(s) are being still investigated.

ValerieR

spurscormac wrote: »

...
Strange thing was, how is 2 withdrawals of €250 from an ATM flaggable as suspicious, I could easily have been on holiday.
...

If there are simultaneous transactions in different countries, visa tends to stop the visa.
It happened us when both of us were in 2 different countries at the same time... It's a bit of a nuisance but good practice!

You can ring your visa customer service to let them know of your whereabouts.

Chris_533976

Collegue at work got BOI cards cancelled today...

Cheshire Cat

My card was cancelled today, too. Do most of my shopping in Dunnes/Joyces in Knocknacarra. Checked account online, but nothing seems to have been taken

Wonder how long it will take to get a replacement card?!?

Jugs82

2 girls in the office have had calls over the last hour or so letting them know that their cards had been skimmed and in one case that a withdrawl had been made in Canada

Both shop regularly in the Knocknacarra area

kayos

soundbyte wrote: »

What really concerns me is the fact that IPSO are saying it isn't connected to what went on in the east of the country over the last few days. Are we to believe its just a bizarre coincidence?

Speaking with BoI today they said it was the same scam. When I asked how long I was told the cards had been skimmed over the past few months but the fraud transactions only started happening last Thursday.

The media seems to be playing this down or at least the info the media is being fed is not complete. Look at the reports and they only mention the east and north east. The devices where only placed in the shops last Thursday/Friday. etc etc. My laser was not used to pay for anything in a store for weeks yet it got skimmed.... go figure

soundbyte

I heard last night that there are thousands of affected customers in Galway, not just Joyces, but a couple of Dunnes outlets were hit too, and that the figure involved will easily be in six figures.

What really concerns me is the fact that IPSO are saying it isn't connected to what went on in the east of the country over the last few days. Are we to believe its just a bizarre coincidence?

http://www.galwaynews.ie/4694-hundreds-hit-skimming-scam

kayos

To be honest I'm just waiting for BoI to try and apply a charge for the new card to be issued. I hope to feck they dont but this is a bank we are talking about.

If they did bring in that sms service you can be sure it would be a bit more expensive more like 2euro per message. Even if they did it as a daily/weekly summary it would be good. But with on line banking its pretty easy to keep an eye on whats coming or going.