Someone in Lithuania has just helped themselves to £500 from my credit card account

Card company have cancelled the card and will hopefully get my money back, but it still makes me mad!

I'm off to Holland tomorrow for the rest of the week for work, which is going to be a real pain without my card

The sooner we bin the plastic and revert to gold Guineas the better!

CNUTS any idea how they got your details??

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Originally posted by omega 24 v6
CNUTS any idea how they got your details??

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just had one uncoverd in york they found a mini camera and everything conceled in the cash machine

i have recently got in the habit of covering my hand as i type my pin, prevents nosy strangers and cameras getting it. Ie one hand covering the keypad and the other slyly tapping away underneath

...and watch for the "Oh, sorry, didn't work the first time" double-swipe. That's how they got me (and a couple of hundred others in the area) - bad guys paid the filling-station attendant $50 for the day to double swipe all cards coming through the station...once through a duplicate machine, and once through the genuine one. Somehow the duplicate is able to read the PIN information (copies from the real one maybe?), they cobble up a duplicate card with the hacked magnetic stripe info, and using your PIN number, go on a spending spree. I wanted to deal with the b*stards, but they spirited them out of town after their arrest

This unfortunately doesn’t explain how my credit card was hacked as I rarely used it. I was always very careful over any use of the PIN and never used it to get money from a cash machine!

Anyway I will say it was a Barclycard and the first rogue payment flagged my card and all further payments were blocked. The initial transaction was never charged to me and my card was replaced within a few days. So apart from the inconvenience I'll stick with em.

My credit card was cloned a few weeks back. Numpties bought a mobile phone from CPW but it got sent to my address (presumably automatically as I'm a talktalk customer), the other usages were withdrawn by the shops so didn't appear - the one major advantage of chip+pin.

The card only ever got used online (I can't even remember the pin) so there's a (very) limited number of places it could have leaked from. I have my suspicions as there was only one 'new' online place I used in the months before cloning, but without proof I won't name them here.

One way of getting stung is using randome card number generators then obliging companies that will process transations. A friend of mine got caught out that way twice.

Seems petrol station attendants are a common theme in many cases.

One guy I used to work with told me of a shop keeper who was offered a device to sit under the desk and (assuming via induction) read the data from the keypad as it was transmitted down the wire to the till. Don't know how useful that would be though, I thought it would be encrypted myself.

The time I got swindled out of 30 quid by someone using a top up (I wasn't even in the town at the time), the Barclays staff member told me it was definitly me who did it and pretty much accused me of fraud.

[Edited on 1/5/07 by Catpuss]