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Somebody has my card details online, how can I stop it?

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  • derv
    derv Posts: 4 Newbie
    This happens to many people every year. Just cancel the credit cards (it can be a pain, though).
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
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    endure wrote: »
    I leave that to your imagination - just bear in mind that working the night shift is a minimum wage career.


    isnt there ctv in operation 24/7
  • endure
    endure Posts: 271 Forumite
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    isnt there ctv in operation 24/7

    Not always. Even when there are the cameras aren't normally pointed at the pinpads otherwise you'd have customers complaining that they are being recorded whilst entering their PIN numbers.
  • baza52
    baza52 Posts: 3,029 Forumite
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    I had £4,500 taken from my Abbey account on new years day and it took at least 2 weeks to get the money back into my account. I aslo had to change my cards and login details before i could access the account.
  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    edited 12 June 2009 at 8:02AM
    weller711 wrote: »
    Yes, just checked and it has both, just also updated.

    In the last couple of weeks, I've shopped at Amazon, Asda, HMV and M&S.
    The only off-line transaction I've used is buying Petrol at a Shell Petrol Station.

    Shell Petrol Stations are unfortunately well known and often in the press for gangs running them and cloning cards, always pay with cash if you need to use one, else buy fuel from Tescos, Sainsburys which are likely to have better security etc.

    They can add a scanning device to the chip'n'pin machine, they can use all sorts of techniques, it's been well documented. Similar to skimmers which gangs use on cash points, one records the ard details then a camera or person lurking remembers the PIN, although if it is a wireless c'n'p device Cambridge university students proved this can be cracked.
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