credit card fraud? have you been done recently?

Jemma-T

secureatm wrote: »

Credit card fraud sounds like something that should be difficult to do. Unfortunately, it's not. But thank God, I am not a victim of it yet..
---security.com

Spam

Why can't we mark one post as spam? When I try to report the post a stupid box pops up asking me to use a mail client. I don't use those companies for mail.

Had to report the entire thread as spam. Also, insert image doesn't apear to work.

Paul_Herring

Jemma-T wrote: »

Why can't we mark one post as spam? When I try to report the post a stupid box pops up asking me to use a mail client.

I don't use those companies for mail.

Because the link itself is a mailto: link, not an internal report link like the report whole thread link.

What program/service do you use for email?

Had to report the entire thread as spam. Also, insert image doesn't apear to work.

Works here; using plain editor mode and the insert image button which pops up a dialog pre-filled with "http://"

LinD

Yes, I've just been scammed again, this time for a huge amount. I opened my debit card statement this morning and I've been pretty much cleaned out - several debits for 'o2 Money Card' each withdrawal for £500. Won't be able to pay my bills this month. Devastated. I called Barclays who hadn't even picked up on it. They've now stopped the card and said they'll send some forms. I am incredibly careful with my details and I don't even use my card very often, I don't know how this has happened.

Jemma-T

Paul_Herring wrote:

What program/service do you use for email?

Several but I don't think this site should be making them less secure by trying (referring) to log into them. People can do that themselves with their own browser. It makes good sense not to be running these sorts of scripts on this site.

A simple 'report' button does most sites.

That link you posted doesn't show and image just a link.

INT1

o2 money card is rife for fraud at moment. Doesn't effect credit cards though!

Paul_Herring

Jemma-T wrote: »

Several but I don't think this site should be making them less secure by trying (referring) to log into them.

This site isn't. Your browser is.

You can test this with any mailto: link on any site - your browser's behaviour will be exactly the same as it is on this site.

Of course if this standard browser behaviour (IE does it as well) is confusing to you, it's possible to disable it in Firefox: http://blog.johang.se/2009/02/disabling-mailto-links-in-firefox.html

People can do that themselves with their own browser. It makes good sense not to be running these sorts of scripts on this site.

It's not a script. It's a simple link.

A simple 'report' button does most sites.

Debatable - it depends on how they want the reports; internally or via email. It appears that this site uses both. (They only used to accept emails.)

That link you posted doesn't show and image just a link.

I posted no links; just corrected the image in the bit I quoted from you, and a small test of the 'quoted from' graphic to ensure the insert picture button worked on my browser.

LinD

aldo wrote: »

o2 money card is rife for fraud at moment. Doesn't effect credit cards though!

Aldo, so using a Debit Card can be unsafe, as compared to a Credit Card? So do credit cards have more inbuilt security mechanisms to deter thieves? I'm still baffled as to how the O2 Money Card scammers got my debit card details. And the bank didn't take any notice - or maybe they've given up!

INT1

LinD wrote: »

Aldo, so using a Debit Card can be unsafe, as compared to a Credit Card? So do credit cards have more inbuilt security mechanisms to deter thieves? I'm still baffled as to how the O2 Money Card scammers got my debit card details. And the bank didn't take any notice - or maybe they've given up!

I always use a Credit card over a Debit card and pay off, obviously I don't use a Credit card for Cash though but everything else I do.

Debit card numbers are worth more to a fraudster than Credit cards as certain things you can't use a credit card for (o2 Money card being one)

Also at the end of the day, it's not your money they are stealiong with a credit card but with your bank card it is, unless you are constantly in the overdraft

LinD

Just phoned Barclays Fraud Dept again, because I've had yet another £1,000 taken from my account in the hours running up to my stopping the card. Unbelievable that they allowed all these huge 'O2 Money Card' withdrawals to go through, day after day. It's not the kind of service I expect from my bank, I've made a formal complaint. I will have to do as you suggest Aldo and just use a credit card from now on.

John_Pierpoint

Let us know how your (Visa?) debit card fraud works out.

There was a guy on the radio yesterday who had lost 40K, but the bank reimbursed him.
Like an upstanding citizen, he tried to go to the police with his evidence and the investigations he had made.
There attitude was "You have not lost any money so there is no crime".

That is a good way of keeping the government happy and the crime figures to prove they are tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime!

:rolleyes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nkb0b