Play.com Fraud - warning

ah7386

Would be interesting to see if the delivery addresses that these items have been sent to are all the same or if they are PO Box numbers.

blackmidnight

I don't know if this happens to other people but if you are selling on play trade and you change your card details to incorrect ones then your listings are no longer be shown on the site despite appearing as if they are if you just look under your open listings.

juliet_f

Thanks for highlighting this problem....I shall be cancelling my account with them.

julie_rowland

I had problems with play.com today. My £160 parcel was addressed to a John Lewis and it was a postal address on the Romford Road in London. The google street view is of a house...Anyone else got the same sort of address?

tonyflow

mine was sent to 5 Rosedale Road, London, E7

julie_rowland

mine was: 1025a Romford Road E12 5LH a mere 1.3 miles from your address!:rolleyes:

Coupon-mad

So there's a bit of a pattern emerging...it may be worth a few of you reporting the scam to Watchdog as per the link I gave on the last page. They would investigate a bit more and if it's an inside scam as we suspect then Play.com would be embarrassed into doing something about it at last.

I will do as LittleBill suggests and change the card details on my dormant Play account.

katthehat

Thanks OP for the 'heads up', just changed my details and won't be shopping with them again.

Sorry for all you folkes who got ripped off, it's terrible.

bs7

LittleBill wrote: »

I would recommended for anybody with a 'sleeping' or active account to remove their CC details ... I tried to remove mine but could not ... so I put in an expired/cancelled CC details instead ...

Paypal helpfully have a list of Test Credit Card Account Numbers - here:

Test Credit Card Account Numbers

While testing, use only the credit card numbers listed here. Other numbers produce an error.

Expiration Date must be a valid date in the future (use the mmyy format).

Test Credit Card Account Numbers

Credit Card Type Credit Card Number

American Express 378282246310005
American Express 371449635398431
American Express Corporate 378734493671000
Australian BankCard 5610591081018250
Diners Club 30569309025904
Diners Club 38520000023237
Discover 6011111111111117
Discover 6011000990139424
JCB 3530111333300000
JCB 3566002020360505
MasterCard 5555555555554444
MasterCard 5105105105105100
Visa 4111111111111111
Visa 4012888888881881
Visa 4222222222222

These should be able to be used to effectively erase your current credit card details by replacing them with one of the above.

duggie1982

Great find bs7. Had something like this in my work but did not think it was publicly known.

Just changed my debit card number using this above, just made up my cv2 number and changed my date of birth