Barclaycard used after being on 2012 website...

soyamocha

I registered for tickets, as did my partner, when they were first advertised on the proper Olympic website. We only managed to get Hockey (I bought those on my account) and Paralympics (he bought those on his account he set up). You have to set up an account on the site to be able to purchase tickets. In the last few days there has been all this about extra seats so last night we both logged on separately on two different laptops and with two different password/accounts to see if we could get any tickets. No luck at all and so we logged off.

This morning he gets a call from his bank about some strange transactions that happened around midnight last night - two for 50p and then one for £107 for clothes - all purchased on line. Anyhow he confirmed that were not his purchased and his card was stopped.

Within half an hour I get a call from Barclaycard asking about four transactions again made around midnight last night. The first 3 for £10 were put through but the bigger one for almost £1000 was thankfully declined. They haven now stopped the card.

This is so odd because we have no joint accounts whatsoever so apart from this website there is nothing to connect us.

I hardly ever use my BC and this year have only used it for the olympic tickets and Amazon and my partner does not use his card much (his is for his current account). What I cannot understand is how did they not only have our complete card number, but the expiration dates and the security number on the back. All the transactions were done over the internet. I have searched today to see if this has happened to anyone else but cannot find anything.

It does seem odd that the only site we were on last night was the official 2012 olympic site and now this has happened. Incidentally the transactions were done from the UK.

Anyone got any thoughts?

Thanks

sharpy2010

Sounds like you've got spyware on your computer maybe?

zagfles

Were the laptops wi-fi connections, to the same router? What's the security on your wi-fi (WEP/WPA2 etc), is the password easy to guess?

mrsw

Very interested to read your post, because exactly the same thing happened to me! A card that I rarely use, but purchased some tickets on 2012 site. My card was then fraudulently used for £300 purchase at Harrods, but thankfully the bank declined the transaction.

I scanned my PC using the virus checker and it came back all clear.

soyamocha

Yes we do use the same router but my password (and his) are different and both hard to guess. I was particularly interested in the guy who had his card attempted at Harrods. I only use my BC for Amazon and have done so for years. I rarely use the BC and keep it in a drawer. I only used it for 2012 because of the fact they made a big thing of accepting Visa. It is for this reason that I am really convinced it was the 2012 website because both of us have been targeted at the same time after both going on.

anrutpea

My boss bought 2012 tickets last year and his credit card was fraudulantly used afterwards as well.

He bought the tickets off the 2012 website.