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Credit card scammed after using booking.com
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Scotbot
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I made 2 hotel bookings via booking.com last week. Both were pay later bookings. An hour after my bank contacted me to say suspicious transactions had been made on my card. One was £0 from Data Trans AG based in Zurich. The hotels were in Spain and booking.com is based in Amsterdam.
I have no idea who Data Trans AG are and I got no response from booking. Com when I queried the transaction so my card was cancelled by the bank. I then cancelled the bookings as the card details are no longer valid
Any idea how this can have happened and how do I rebook the hotels safely? I was at home using my own broadband via wifi
I have no idea who Data Trans AG are and I got no response from booking. Com when I queried the transaction so my card was cancelled by the bank. I then cancelled the bookings as the card details are no longer valid
Any idea how this can have happened and how do I rebook the hotels safely? I was at home using my own broadband via wifi
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A transaction for no money sounds like an authorisation, quite probably by the owner of the hotels.
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Voyager2002 said:A transaction for no money sounds like an authorisation, quite probably by the owner of the hotels.0
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These suspicious transactions, did any of them actually attempt to take a payment other than £0? Could they be dummy transactions to verify the card?
Datatrans AG is a provider of payment systems for eCommerce.0 -
As above - the £0 transactions are to verify the card is real, active etc1
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Olinda99 said:As above - the £0 transactions are to verify the card is real, active etc
The fact that I received several phishing texts afterwards makes me think it was not genuine0 -
The fact that I received several phishing texts afterwards makes me think it was not genuine
But those dodgy texts afterwards would make me wary too.0 -
I have never had a scammer do a routine £0 credit card transaction - maybe I have just been lucky.2
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Scotbot said:Voyager2002 said:A transaction for no money sounds like an authorisation, quite probably by the owner of the hotels.
The hotels would not have known: the owner of the hotels might be anywhere, and an intermediary company might have bought a block of rooms from the owner to resell and was now verifying that they could collect payment if you failed to pay as scheduled.
Or, of course,. it might have been a scammer.0 -
Last night i had s £0.01 transaction on my card which my bank had already informed me was compromised. They had already mailed a new card. On ringing the bank they said there were multiple attempts after the penny one went through that they stopped. Its a test to see if the card is active.0
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