lost card

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176924#Comment_82176924

Sorry if virtual projectiles perceived.

Actually a good thing that the fraudster was quite so inept.

HillStreetBlues

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176473#Comment_82176473

I read it as rant at self for losing the card.

The_Groat_Counter

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82177651#Comment_82177651

Ditto.
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redux

You need to choose better places to lose your card

Brixton

Sign in station says beware of pickpockets, so I move my phone to right trousers pocket, which is double, with zip on inner part

About quarter of a mile on, maybe I'll check the map on my phone to see how much further, as the junctions on the other side don't look quite as foreseen, though I don't think I've missed the turning yet

Then I'm vaguely aware of some commotion behind me, but I can't hear exact words

A few yards on a thought occurs, what was that slight click noise I barely registered? Did I accidentally pull out my credit card, which I'd just used for the train but not put back in card wallet, click as it hit pavement?

I turn round and go back. A few yards away a West Indian guy is waving my credit card at shoulder height.

"Thank you very much." I hope I was smiling even half as much as he was.

MyRealNameToo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176473#Comment_82176473

Surely the rant is at either themselves for having lost it or the opportunistic thief who tried to use it and not at the bank?

flaneurs_lobster

A few yards on a thought occurs, what was that slight click noise I barely registered? Did I accidentally pull out my credit card, which I'd just used for the train but not put back in card wallet, click as it hit pavement?

You heard a credit card bounce? Congrats on your auditory health.

My cards stick to my phone case too, not sure if it's static, cohesion or the Weak Nuclear Force but I've dropped a few cards that way.

RE the Beware of Pickpockets notice - was told that pickpockets hang around such signs, people will give away the location of their wallet, phone by a reflex tap to their pocket when they read it.

MEM62

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82176497#Comment_82176497

My thought as well. Risky to say the least.

COIAHLGW

I'm surprised the online transaction did not ask for a secondary form of authentication, considering the (presumably) different address

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82184920#Comment_82184920

Don't know what the house limits at Sports Direct or NatWest are that will kick in when a delivery address differs from the registered cardholder address but maybe £170 didn't breach them.