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My dad has been scammed out of £19,000
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That is a very clear post, Colsten, and may well be what happened.
However, the issue about the card does seem to be difficult to reconcile. Even if the scammers had obtained a replacement card then wouldn't the father's original card have stopped working? Had he been using his card or had it stopped working?
Call me a cynic but the OP's reluctance to discuss anything about the original payee is ringing alarm bells.0 -
Dr_Crypto said:Even if the scammers had obtained a replacement card then wouldn't the father's original card have stopped working? Had he been using his card or had it stopped working?1
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That was a very good explanation colsten.
However, I have the NatWest app on my iPhone and I can definitively set up a new payee without a card reader (as I don't have one although have had one in the past).0 -
TrickyDicky101 said:That was a very good explanation colsten.
However, I have the NatWest app on my iPhone and I can definitively set up a new payee without a card reader (as I don't have one although have had one in the past).2 -
TrickyDicky101 said:That was a very good explanation colsten.
However, I have the NatWest app on my iPhone and I can definitively set up a new payee without a card reader (as I don't have one although have had one in the past).2 -
My point was it is possible to set up a new payee via the app. I didn't realise that had already been acknowledged - so fair enough - and I agree there are plenty of hoops to jump through to get it to work.0
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TrickyDicky101 said:My point was it is possible to set up a new payee via the app. I didn't realise that had already been acknowledged - so fair enough - and I agree there are plenty of hoops to jump through to get it to work.0
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TrickyDicky101 said:However, I have the NatWest app on my iPhone and I can definitively set up a new payee without a card reader (as I don't have one although have had one in the past).
This is the message you get in the app
There is further information about the payment limit when you are trying to make a payment in the app, and there's simply no way to bypass the limit.1 -
TrickyDicky101 said:My point was it is possible to set up a new payee via the app. I didn't realise that had already been acknowledged - so fair enough - and I agree there are plenty of hoops to jump through to get it to work.
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Dr_Crypto said:That is a very clear post, Colsten, and may well be what happened.
However, the issue about the card does seem to be difficult to reconcile. Even if the scammers had obtained a replacement card then wouldn't the father's original card have stopped working? Had he been using his card or had it stopped working?
Call me a cynic but the OP's reluctance to discuss anything about the original payee is ringing alarm bells.
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