Suspicious transaction - "WP-STAGECOACH-SERV"

meeps

I had similar recently but mine was a £1.50 to national express, then £50 to vodaphone, then I noticed!
all sorted quite fast by barclays.

karmacookie

p1an0player wrote: »

I would hope that the bank would give you a temporary overdraft to cover these, whilst it is being investigated?

I wasn't too clear in my post but what I meant was that people who are not victims should not waste time worrying about this eventuality. Some people reading the OP would have been unnecessarily alarmed.

I hope everything gets sorted out.

I'm sorry but when this happens it is allarming, especially when your local branch is clueless and you have to phone 0870 numbers, be put on hold for half an hour and still try to figure out for yourself how it happened, cause the crooks are protected by the data protection act. Yeah, apparently you do get your money back, no prob, but what about the mayhem in between?
The banks need mo act now to tighten things up. We, as customers even if we have not been subject to fraud are paying for this.
btw, to sort out a temporary overdraft you need to phone another 0870 number!

lesley1960

I noticed 2 £4.50 payments to stagecoach yesterday , phoned the bank ( natwest) who have stopped the card , they said they could see another payment coming through for £4.50 and one for £332 but couldnt confirm who they were payable to , and said they may or may not be stopped by the card being cancelled ..great .I am just grateful i always check my bank and that they arent for big amounts.

A few weeks ago my company bank account was scammed for £1731 payable to a bed company in Cape Town , and have only today received the money back , apparently the bank has had to refund it because they havent been able to claim it back

BigHagar

Hi all

My name is Alexandre Machado and I'm from Portugal.

I was checking my card movements today and come across two consecutive payments to Stagecoach of 1,50 GBP each.

I also saw my bank and refunded my account on the same amount the next couple of days.

However, a new transaction in the name of "Nat Express - Elect Comm Birmingham" has been made...

I was searching the web for similar situations and found this forum so decided to share this experience with you all.

I would like to add I use my card only for international trades (95% in UK online shops). Almost all this transactions are made using PAYPAL as the "middle-man".

So...checking my transactions I can indicate 3 companies with whom I had business the last couple of months:

1. Paypal
2. The Gamers Guild
3. Maelstrom Games

Above all, I hope Paypal is not involved in this schemes. It provides a valuable service and should prevent this situations from happening.

I will contact this dealers to inform them of what happened as their "secure payment" services might not be as secure as they think it is.

Cheers
Alex

susie_small

Hi I recently checked my on-line account and found 4 consecutive transactions for £142.00 each,all to Stagecoach Serv another for £30.00 mobile top-up at Tesco and a purchase in America for £15.11. Thats over £600.00 gone from my account. I informed Barclays and they have blocked my card. I have been a customer of Amazon but not for a few months. This has really shaken my faith in the ease of Internet dealings. Susie.

jaigar

This has happened to me this week 3 x £1.50 to wp Stagecoach then £459 to John Lewis and £362 to digiuk.com phoned them and was told that they had suspended it because it didnt match the name and address (of me) but they couldnt give me the delivery address that was given because of the data protection act!!!!! ha ha ha if i wasnt so cross i would be wetting my pants laughing someone has stolen MY information and is spending MY money on electrical goods online ... but they cant tell me the address (THAT SHOULD BE MINE!!!!) that i am supposed to be getting 'MY' new stuff delivered to so i really feel for you susie small, I have lost my faith in EVERYBODY in EVERY shop i go into now, I hope you get on ok
J

Dopey_Dora_42

Good morning,
This is happening to me AGAIN (was done in August on another bank account). I have had 2 trans actions to stagecoach £1.50 and two to Thames water for £1 and then they have bought from gems tv £920.95 which has caused my account to go massively overdrawn and the bank have allowed it-I am fuming and there are also pending entries. Today there is also a ddr to t mobile so Im just off to the bank now!! I really am security conscious with my cards and can not believe its happening.

MattyBoy1964

Oh yes, this WP-STAGECOACH-SERV strikes again!!!

I have just checked my accounts at Barclays to find a number of transactions that I know I have never made!! I always check my accounts online AM and PM each day so I can move money around to avoid charges.............!!!!

Low and behold when I googled WP-STAGECOACH-SERV I find that I am not alone by a long chalk!!

They had 'tested' my account with a couple of small amounts, a total of £24 to T-Mobile and ofcourse to Stagecoach and when I reported this to the Barclays fraudline, I discovered to my horror that they had also tried to buy £2500.00 worth of luggage with my 'lolly'!!!

The bank were quite helpful, however had I not had the 'gumption' to contact them how long would this have gone on I wonder!!

I am told I will receive a new card in due course, but I would love to know how they skimmed the details!!!

Take care guys, it's a jungle out there!!!

Matty Boy!:mad:

webslinger25

I too was searching for the names of the fraudulent charges on my bank card and found this forum. From the postings it appears this forum deals with people from Europe and particularly the UK. However, I am an American so it seems this activity is spreading. I did have a transaction with a UK company three months ago but that was using a different bank card so I am not sure how this bank card was compromised.

History:

I first noticed a few days ago a pending charge "skype.com" which is still pending.

Since then I have seen charges for "Nat Express - Elect Comm Birmingham" which has actually posted. And "National Express Edgbaston On" which is also still pending.

I noticed that BigHagar thought the "Nat Express - Elect Comm Birmingham" transaction might have been related to PayPal. I can tell you that I have never done a transaction through PayPal so that can't be the source. Or at least not the only source.

Just thought I would let everyone know that this activity isn't limited to Europe.

Tony

wellsie82

Hi there

I recieved an email from my bank (Halifax) to say i had a letter waiting for me so i logged into my account to find i was £120 overdrawn, now this was very unsual because i havn't been overdrawn since i opened the account over 4 years ago.

I checked my account to see three suspicious transactions which i knew i hadn't made.
I know my card hasn't been stolen as i've got it in front of me so it's obvously been clonned or somethin

Two of them where for muslimaid.org for £1 and one was for Audio Visual Sound for £159 - at this point i burst out crying as i knew that something was wrong so rang up Halifax who cancelled my card.

The woman at Halifax told me there was 7 pending transactions, six of them were for muslimaid.org for the same amount and one for itunesmusic.

Halifax were very helpful and have passed it on to their fraud department and i've also informed the police who were also helpful and got a incident number from them.

I'm now so scared to use my card anywhere in real or over the internet i really dont know what to do!

i just hope this is the first and last time it happens