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This is a very strange travel agent website.
So assuming that these people don't maintain a UK bank account, these were international payments sent to India.
Another point. Agrinnall helpfully found this link by googling yahya ticket agency. However, when I and others tried simply using the mane yahya we did not find this. Unless the OP knew in advance that this was a ticket agency, their search would have been simply for yahya and would not have returned any information about this ticket agency.Thanks, in my defence it was early in the morning and I only searched using yahya hence why the results I got weren't relevant.
You're both correct, just googling for yahya would have taken a miracle for the OP to realise that it was a ticket agency, I gave up after looking through quite a few pages of irrelevant results. There has to be more to this than we're being told.0 -
Terry_Towelling wrote: »Sheramber, your family has been unlucky with fraud attempts against it, but, yes, if a transaction was made by card, all the necessary retailer info is in the card transaction data and it is all to hand for the bank.
On the specifics of OP's vague thread, I doubt that a ticket agency would invite you to pay for anything via Faster Payment (although it is not impossible) and a FP could display the retailer name if that's how you set the payee up - and why would you be invited to pay £1 ten days before anything else - unless the retailer is complicit? The most obvious payment type is debit card and that would be clearly identified in the transaction on the account - but the same questions about a ticket agency taking a £1 debit would need to be asked.
As for identifying the device used, we've had threads before where this has sparked debate. I have read about Verified-by-Visa and MasterCard SecureCode being able to detect differing devices and thereby make decisions on the transaction as a result and it seems there may be differences whether you access via an App or via other online processes.
Now, being too paranoid to access the account to check how the payments were made, or whether new payees have been set up - really? All that extraneous info about half-term, wages going missing, being in France, talking to the Ombudsman. And, noticing a £1 payment but not being too bothered about it because you knew you hadn't bought any tickets is simply unbelievable - isn't that the main reason why you would be bothered about it?
There was a whiff about this thread from the start and I think someone is merely trying to 'exercise' us.
My husband's card wasn't used. He still had it in his wallet. The transaction was over 300 miles from where we live . He very used it but had used it online a month before.
The bank could not say if a card was produced, just that a mobile phone top up had been purchased.0 -
Like others have same, something doesn't add up. This same situation has actually happened to me before several years ago more or less straight after l had used a well known money transfer company. Not sure if that was the reason but the same bank TSB had picked up multiple withrawals of £1 or less from my debit account. Then blocked my account. I just got a new card and that was it.0
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