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Thank you Capital One!
nixinix
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Don't usually post on here but just felt the need to give praise where praise is due.
We have had a Capital One credit card for 12months or so and in that time they have, annoyingly at the time, called to confirm a couple of purchases one small and one big.
This time however they were right - someone had tried using our card for a 'test amount' on a website called napster (never heard of it let alone used it) - they immediatley flagged it rang us and our cards have been stopped and new ones being issued. Fantastic service - hopefully it has saved us a small fortune - god knows how much someone could have spent before our next statement if they hadn't. Now the inconvenience of no credit card in run up to christmas but better than a huge bill!
Any ideas of how the most common way thieves get our card details? Used at bookpeople on 5th and M&S on 22/11 online otherwise used in stores only.
We have had a Capital One credit card for 12months or so and in that time they have, annoyingly at the time, called to confirm a couple of purchases one small and one big.
This time however they were right - someone had tried using our card for a 'test amount' on a website called napster (never heard of it let alone used it) - they immediatley flagged it rang us and our cards have been stopped and new ones being issued. Fantastic service - hopefully it has saved us a small fortune - god knows how much someone could have spent before our next statement if they hadn't. Now the inconvenience of no credit card in run up to christmas but better than a huge bill!
Any ideas of how the most common way thieves get our card details? Used at bookpeople on 5th and M&S on 22/11 online otherwise used in stores only.
Boo!:rotfl:
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Hiya are you on Quidco? Napster has an offer on there for money back through quidco so could be from there? (no soend offer kind of thing) just an idea.
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napster is an online download music site. well done on getting a CC helping you.0
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I would definitely recommend getting set up to view your card account online. I check mine every couple of days and it allows me to monitor whats going on with it and has alerted to several issues (not fraud) which I managed to get sorted fairly quickly.0
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Thank you for your responses. I am with Quidco but not been to Napster ??
Godd idea about having online account - will check it out.
I was very impressed with their service, allbeit an inconvenience!!!Boo!:rotfl:0 -
although far less of an inconvenience than having to try and sort out fraudulent transactions for £1,000s0
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