lost card

northernstar007

just a rant thats all, out shopping today, teatime today cc app req a auth for sportdirect online £170, it wasnt me and i live on my own

looked for my card and somehow fell out my backpocket, called natwest straightaway, and straight through cancelled the card they also blocked the device used, no other transactions were attempted or authorised

1st time ive lost a card a bit gutted

eskbanker

Doesn't really seem to be a rant, or did you expect NatWest to do anything else in this situation? Sounds to me like their response was exemplary…

marcia_

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6687637/lost-card

dont know why people carry things in their back pockets. Too easy to fall out or even be dipped. At a family party weekend gone I took my nephews card and phone as a joke and he didn't notice.

GrubbyGirl_2

Sounds like everything worked as it should. Personally I keep my CC locked until I need to use it and my debit card I have a contactless limit of £30 set on it so if anyone did get hold of my card they couldn't do much damage and I'd be alerted quickly as I'm sure most thieves would try and go on a spending spree and try and spend more than £30.

At least you've learned a good lesson to take more care and not put your card in your back pocket again

FatAngus

The first thing the person who found the card thought to do was to try to spend £170 at Sports Direct…

What a country we've become.

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176577#Comment_82176577

Finder clearly stupid, could have got 70 sausage rolls at Greggs.

Keep_pedalling

Wouldn’t they also need your PIN number to spend over £100 on a single transaction?

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176634#Comment_82176634

NatWest let you increase your contactless limit, no idea what the max limit might be - probably personalised per account.

Sounds like the card finder was not of the thinking kind.

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176634#Comment_82176634

It was an online purchase…

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176898#Comment_82176898

Online order with a stolen card? For delivery to home address? Or click'n'collect in store (where they need ID in same name as on order)?

Both of which take a week?

Should have gone for the sausage rolls.

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176913#Comment_82176913

Don't shoot the messenger - I was just reiterating what OP said, rather than analysing it or commenting on the wisdom (or otherwise) of what was attempted!