bank account fraud

[electricsceadu]

just a heads up
if you get any money missing from your bank account with a card payment to
[url]WWW.JUSTEAT.CO.UK[/url]
they are ripping off bank accounts
my bank's fraud dept contacted me to question the transaction
and i've never herd or delt with them
95% of my payments online are through paypal
the others are to well known shops
the last payment i'd made before hand was to top my phone up
for my day to day payments i use good old cash
so it isn't the student in tesco's
or the well known card rip off scum in the local petrol station

[waveydavey]

Dave I use Just Eat all the time and they're kocher, sounds as if someone has got hold of your card details somehow

[electricsceadu]

i did a search for just eat
the correct web site uses small letters
the details on the transaction was in caps
and normal my transactions show the correct lettering

the only other thing i used my card for was to tax the car online

who ever it is won't get far as my card has been cancelled and a new one is being sent out
and its nobody that i know as i've never given anyone my card or pin

[waveydavey]

Strange because the link you have on your OP takes me straight to the site I use all the time. Someones got your details somehow Dave

[bigpops]

Yep, Just eat are massive company. They even advertise on TV.

More likely is that your details were compromised somehow, and just-eat was one place the criminal tried to use your card details. Fortunately it looks like the bank's software noticed it was out of character for you to use just-eat and flagged your account for further investigation.

I (well, the bank as I got it all back) was taken for about £1200. The transactions were all for frivolous things including hiring a limousine all around the Slough area. Not so much as a phone call from the bank until I contacted them as my card kept being declined.

Yet, when I tried to buy my Agile 5.5, they blocked the transaction until I phoned them up and asked what was going on. Maybe because the UK dealer is a fish tank shop and not a heli store. This was a paypal payment too by the way.

[electricsceadu]

[QUOTE=waveydavey;1146307]Strange because the link you have on your OP takes me straight to the site I use all the time. Someones got your details somehow Dave[/QUOTE]

i just typed it as per the bank account details
googling it came up with the lower case letters on the links

but i'm all good for now as s**t comes in three's and its the third lot in 6 weeks
of scum stealing from myself

and its a good job they didn't empty the account this friday coming as its payday


the bank did tell me that the transaction was done online

[trillian]

Well, we hear about this sort of thing and of course the media loves to sensationalise any new 'cyber threat' and etc. etc. but I'll tellya what, if given the choice of having someone weasle some money off my credit card vs someone coming up and sticking a knife in me I know which I'd take any day of the week. (and no, I've never been threatened with a knife).

[old gimmer]

I had my card cloned last week the transaction that was made alerted the system because it was alien to how I use it which is for amounts under £100.00 so a transfer of £735.00 to an estate agent as payment of property rent yes the prick paid his rent with it

[waveydavey]

What a plank, like thats not traceable, what a dufus.

[Mikej]

If it's a game of "Top Trumps Fraud" ... I got hit for 4 payments of £1,500 (£6,000 in total) by some scammer, from one of my cards into Betfair.com. My bank picked it up immediately and froze the payments - but it was out of my account for about 12 hours.

It certainly makes more sense to go for some thing like on-line betting where you can remain anonymous, rather than for paying your rent:banghead::banghead::banghead:

[trillian]

[QUOTE=waveydavey;1146342]What a plank, like thats not traceable, what a dufus.[/QUOTE]

You'd think so but often when the rubber meets the road it's a different story. Things like that are harder to prove than we would like, the reason for this is because we don't have the CSI team on our side digging up all the paper trails and IP addresses etc. so the perpetrator says "I have no idea how that got there, didn't know anything about it" and that's as far as it goes. Maybe not, I'm just playing devil's advocate. I'll give you a quick real example: I worked at a music store in LA, someone bought a keyboard over the phone using a stolen credit card and we posted it via UPS. When the card company found out they did a chargeback so they took the money back from us. We told the police but they basically said "well, there's no way to prove that the person at the delivery address was the one that stole the credit card". They also said they could not go over there and go inside to retrieve the keyboard. So we had an address, potentially the phone company would have the records of who made the purchase etc. and yet we were still SOL.

[st200ol]

[QUOTE=trillian;1146355]They also said they could not go over there and go inside to retrieve the keyboard. So we had an address, potentially the phone company would have the records of who made the purchase etc. and yet we were still SOL.[/QUOTE]

I would imagine a few people would "sort it out themselves" at this point, this of course is just as illegal as the fraud. If the law can't be bothered then can it be surprised when people turn to violence.