Scamming Bastards!

[tykey]

Just found out this morning my debit card has been hit for £650 in a restaurant in spain! Must have been a fucking good meal! Bastards!

Bet it was fucking nigerians!

[CaNsA]

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[Ariel Badger]

BBC 03 10 09
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[hellkat]

Cunts.

I had someone call me up at nearly midnight the other day.

Rang (on my mobile) on withheld, then hung up before I could pick it up.

Then rang again with the number showing, which was LONG. Naturally I wonder if its from NZ, at that time of night, and as my dad is very ill over there, so I pick the call up.

When I answered, a guy (I didnt notice his accent at first) said "Is that Jennifer?", so I was like, "Yes."

Then he proceeded to TELL ME he was from Nigeria, at which point I said, "I don't want anything , thanks." and hung up.

Cue one very VERY sleepless night.

Next morning soon as I could I phoned my mobile provider
(fortunately the phone had been barred at almost exactly at the same time because I had not paid my bill on time, LOL) ... but they reassured me that such scammers could not pick up the use of my phone from such a call.

Just to make sure, and as they are fairly certain to have had my surname as well as my first name, I phoned both my banks, warned the fraud departments, and also rang the Tax Dept and warned them to flag my national insurance number.

Fucking Nigerians.

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[Skudd]

I've just had this sent to me.


From the desk of.MARK JAMES
Director Foreign Affairs
Deutsche Bank AG (London Branch)
(BSC: NYSE Arca)

Tel/fax: 447006002413

Dear Beneficiary

Re: instruction to credit your account with the sum of us$10,000,000.00

This is to notify you that your over due inheritance funds has been gazetted to be released, via key telex transfer (KTT)-direct wire transfer to you by the senate committee for foreign over due fund transfer. Mean while, a man came to my office three days ago with a letter, claiming to be your true representative.Here are his information's:

Name Kelvin Godwin
Bank name: Bank of America, New-York.
Account number: 6503809428.

Please, do re-confirm to this office, as a matter of urgency if this man is from you so that the federal government will not beheld responsible for paying into the wrong account.
The reserve bank governor, executive, board of directors and the senate committee for foreign over due Inheritance fund have approved and accredited this reputable bank with the office of the director, international remittance/ Director Foreign Affairs , to handle and transfer of all foreign inheritance funds this second quarter payment of the year 2009.

However, we shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mr. Kelvin Godwin, if we do not hear from you within the next seven working days from today this fund will be transferred to the account of Kelvin Godwin.
Meanwhile, you are advice to get back to us immediately to this office with the below details :

1. Your full name:
2. Your telephone/fax numbers:
3. Your full home address:
4. Your nominated bank name/address.
5. Your account/routing number:

Best regards,

MARK JAMES
Director Foreign Affairs
Deutsche Bank AG
Direct Line:+447024091678
[email protected]


I wonder if it is a scam
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[Stelmer]

To them scams, I did have an idea to send them details of ebayers who crossed me as my revenge once......


Only just a hypothetical idea.... Of course i'd never do such a thing in real life.

[Flip]

A couple of years ago my Dad got a call from Visa asking if he'd just spent 3K in a massage parlour in Thailand.

Some one had a ball (no pun intended) on his card.

[Cannon]

[silky666]

Buuurp .... sorry for the late reply .... just been on a huge bender in Spain.
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[Fisty]

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[tykey]

jokes aside (and i agree it is funny ), they're still bastards whoever did it!

Got a previous months statement y'day and the only thing i can see worthy of note is that i went to a petrol station i never usually go to. It's only about 10 miles away but with so many others closer i never go to it. Went there about a week ago. I noticed nothing odd about the place, it's a big well known one. My card deffo never left my sight but apparently crims can hack existing swipe machines so that they can get your details with the one required swipe. I've also used it online with amazon recently. I have NEVER used it anywhere I thought looked dodgy, not online or in person.

I had been planning to buy another bike this month, thats out the window now! Bank says it will be "November" before i get the money back. It's really fucked up some plans. Could've been worse... I bet some people would be fucked paying the mortgage or something... atleast I can live.

What a waste though, £650 in a restaurant. Could've bought a telly to sell or something.

[Mister James]

I doubt very much that any food was actually purchased - it will most likely have been a business that was in on the scam, and paid £300 for the £650 bill to whoever actually stole the card details.

[hellkat]

[Clanger]

I have a linked account, where my cash lives in another place, so what sits on my card is what I put there...also, we have a scheme in place where I notify my bank when I'm out of the country and which countries I will be passing through, so if there are ever any discrepancies, they will instantly be suspicious.

A couple of of times when I've gone overdrawn, they will ring me up or email me, and I will recify it immediately and they don't charge me!!! Now that's good banking service if you ask me.
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[iooi]

[Cptn. Awesome]

[the grim reaper]

[iooi]

If they were able to do that, then you would be seeing thousands of these cases....

What people need to remember is that their PIN is like leaving a open wallet on a table.
If they know it, then they have access to YOUR money. Just the same as if you left you wallet behind full of cash.

If you lost your wallet full of cash, would you expect the bank to give it back to you....
So its the same with your PIN.

Its upto you to prove that it was not available, and if he had not used it for 13 days, then other than it being the same as the other credit card, but there is no mention of that. Then it has to have been written down in some form.
It could have been his DOB or a tele no...
Sadly these people know what to look for, but so do the bank and if they got the PIN without any failed tries. Then it can only have been easily available.
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Just because my bike was A DIVVY, does not mean i am......

[tutton]

See thats where the banks are too suspicious of people and will get mardy about only one pin entry, but all the card machines that get the skimmers and cameras put on the front that look like the real machines will only take one try for the pin as theres a camera recording them...
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Clicky.

[the grim reaper]

I work for a company that manufactures bank cards and I can assure you that banks are looking to improve their security all the time. Chip and PIN is not foolproof by any means, although it is nigh on impossible to skim cards now.

DDA (Dynamic Data Authentification) is the next big step and will prevent cloned cards being used in ATMs, all banks must have this on Visa cards before 2011. Mastercard have no mandate at the moment.

Cheers

Grim
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[iooi]

Some interesting figures and statements.

But try..

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