Trainline App fraud

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PaulDesmond said:

No I did not subscribe. I was forced to verify my bank details.  was told that  would be charged £0.00. No money will be taken out of my bank account. I was not asked to sign up to any subscription only to use some internet to verify my bank account as genuine.
For simply buying tickets you do not need a bank account, the purchase can be made on a credit card / google pay.
Yes but he credit card would be used to verify and I would be subscribed on my credit card. I did not see a pay by google pay as an option. I was asked for my bank details.

But how can you trust an app?

Buy getting it from a reputable market place like Google Play or Apple AppStore is the most effective thing. Second order would be checking who the developer is and if thats consistent for the app. If you search for "NHS" you'll find plenty of apps that have it in their title but arent produced by the NHS. Some of those are legitimate third party firms that do work with the NHS and some are certainly just trading off the name like the "NHS Number" app which is made by a firm that predominately makes access control systems. 

You should have seen Google Pay, by Card and Paypal as the three options to pay in the trainline app. A quick google shows they added GooglePay in 2021