Is It Safer in the Bank or Under the Mattress.

Well I must have been one of the last people to carry plastic simply because I thought security was not good enough. And recently I deleted all my saved card numbers from the Amazon site for the same reason. BUT THEY STILL MANAGED TO GET MY MONEY. £600 to be precise. Fortunately my bank (fraud squad) were onto it right away because I don't gamble and it went to an online gambling site which I am guessing must be the one I heard about funding terrorists. There were three more attempts after the initial raid. I did not trust the initial text I received or the later phone call. I went to check the hole in the wall mini statement and saw the details there myself. My cards have now been stopped.

Just passing this on, do check your bank accounts regularly between statements, your bank may not be as on the ball as mine. I am very careful with my cards so there must be some sort of hacking going on.

Its safe to say that mine is not in any bank and not under the mattress either.

This give some information on the extent of online fraud.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37677446

Well the bank fraud team emailed me to say the money had been replaced. Make your own conclusion.

Relief on my part, that they realised it was not me using an online betting co. A new card is on the way. I hope they get whoever it is. I for one cannot afford to lose that much money, not even half as much. and my energy supplier is having to wait until the cards are sorted.

Well I must have been one of the last people to carry plastic simply because I thought security was not good enough. And recently I deleted all my saved card numbers from the Amazon site for the same reason. BUT THEY STILL MANAGED TO GET MY MONEY. £600 to be precise. Fortunately my bank (fraud squad) were onto it right away because I don't gamble and it went to an online gambling site which I am guessing must be the one I heard about funding terrorists. There were three more attempts after the initial raid. I did not trust the initial text I received or the later phone call. I went to check the hole in the wall mini statement and saw the details there myself. My cards have now been stopped.

Just passing this on, do check your bank accounts regularly between statements, your bank may not be as on the ball as mine. I am very careful with my cards so there must be some sort of hacking going on.

Odds are something on your PC siphoning off the data or youve used a comprimised point of sale terminal I suspect...

Odds are something on your PC siphoning off the data or youve used a comprimised point of sale terminal I suspect...

I had a look for anything obviously strange and have AVG security. But I do shop on Amazon, though I recently took all card no's off and I also pay HMRC on that particular card. So who knows. I think it must have flagged up because they know the scammer or is it the terrorist account?

It's flagged up because it's a large amount and you have no history of spending with that profile.

As O said, it's most likely that your card was skimmed at a tampered cash point or POS (cashpoint is actually easier though from a criminal POV).

I had a look for anything obviously strange and have AVG security. But I do shop on Amazon, though I recently took all card no's off and I also pay HMRC on that particular card. So who knows. I think it must have flagged up because they know the scammer or is it the terrorist account?

Be careful when you're paying by card in shops-restaurants etc. if they take your card and walk away to process the payment, as they could be stealing your data.

Be careful when you're paying by card in shops-restaurants etc. if they take your card and walk away to process the payment, as they could be stealing your data.

… or card. .....................

I guess depends if you wet the bed or not.

I guess depends if you wet the bed or not.

Eugh!

I wonder if that's why they introduced the new plastic fivers?

Thought provoking.

I agree with a lot of it, I just wish you were wrong...

Well let us be honest the banks are very good at reclaiming money back from fraudsters, as they themselves are experts in their own way. With the UK owing around 1 trillion in government debt, adn1.5 in private debt, one can see instantly where and what the country invest in. Its not business, innovation, its in property and other assets, where the casino culture of money for nothing makes working people obsolete.

 

In a decade or so why have humans being architects, doctors, nurses, cleaners, bankers, surveyors and so on, when its can all be done so much better by software algorithms, so the end of most of the professional class.

 

Welcome to the corporate run world where profit is king, and paying wages and all sort of complication will be obsolete in the corporate heaven we are embracing. We can see what the future holds today, remember the Liverpool Care Pathway where NHS privitised trusts killed hundreds of thousand of people prematurely for additional government funding? Some got over half a billion.

 

Through closing hospitals, wards, departments, and services, it makes for a more efficient NHS, where in theory specialisation of the highest quality is available, providing there is little demand. Unfortunately with population growth due to many factors the remaining Hospitals of Excellence are overwhelmed in this new improved business model ready for privatisation model having been created.

 

So the government decided that from a business standpoint, spending in all public areas must be reduced hopefully to nothing one day. So We have the disabled being denied a home, bedroom tax, as well as money through various schemes designed for getting rid of the problem, resulting in hundreds of suicides, and premature deaths, all fitting nicely into the proposed spending cuts already in place.

 

Its about profit, not people, and as for computer fraud, compared to the financial industry those involved have a great deal to lean from the professionals, whose business model is to rip everyone off anyway. If you want a safe place for money then gold will always be a hedge against the banks way of devaluing money. Property is of course a safe bet ...well almost as the bubbles created by cheap money push up prices while wages stagnate except for CEO's and senior managers. Its a game, in which the chickens are being starved of proper nutrition while being fed crap, to make them fat enough to sell, after the usual water injection into the meat for extra profits of course.

 

Welcome to a taste of the future right now, its all around you, but you see nothing.

Wow! Absolutely spot on- you have true insight, and that is very, very rare, especially on this forum. I look forward to more posts from you.