URGENT URGENT help!!!!

ebonylight

I have just checked my bank statement as usual and seen a payment taken out by Highstreetmax.com for £14.95.

I immediately rang the bank as I have never heard of them and didn't authorise the payment.

I'm worried it's a scam of some sort or someone has my card details!! Any help greatly greatly appreciated. I'm scared now

angelflower_2

if you rang the bank....what did they say?

if you google it, it looks like a small print scam for a voucher you might have requested through holidays or something. Cancel the SO in your bank ASAP

libra10

Have a read of the article in the link -

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/07/mysterious-credit-card-charges.html

Don't know whether your charge is something similar.

Good luck

ebonylight

that's exactly what must have happenned. wish i could swear on here dammit heh.

right well the bank have put the payment into dispute and are sending me a replacement visa card as it was a visa payment that went out. So hopefully that will be the end of it.

I just feel sick that i fell for something like that. Similarly to the woman in that article i was booking a holiay on last minute dot com and had a free voucher offer come up. I must have clicked on it. What a stupid thing to do.

God i am so annoyed right now :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Nargleblast

You are not the first and yoiu won't be the last. Chalk it up to experience. Someone did a fraudulent transaction on my account a couple of weeks ago, and I have no idea how this piece of pondlife got my card details as I am very careful. The bloke at the bank said someone managed to clone his card recently as well, so there is a lot of it about. Just be careful when you are doing things over the phone or on the net.

ebonylight

Well luckily (in a way) they used my card not my bank details so hopefully that should be the end of it.

Sorry for the panic!!

laura2481

ebonylight wrote: »

Well luckily (in a way) they used my card not my bank details so hopefully that should be the end of it.

Sorry for the panic!!

Hi Ebs, what a set of Bar-stewards! Did a bit of googling and came up with this:
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/general-consumer-issues/162143-highstreetmax-com.html

So everyone watch out for these scammers! :mad: