Careful with card details

[Grassman]

I got a message from Mastercard asking me to confirm I had made some payments today with my credit card. Done in Ireland on an ipad apparently. One for £90 to argos today. Anyway I hadn't so they rang me and stopped my card. Apparently two attempts today to use it.
Some business I have rung to pay for items recently has passed on my card details. I'm never happy paying for things that way but it's the first time I have been caught out. Luckily Mastercard stopped both payments. No idea how they know its likely a fraud.

 

[primmiemoo]

Had a number from a neighbouring phone exchange on the phone when I came home this afternoon, along with notice of a voice message. The message was an automated scam about misuse of a card for Amazon payments. No information about whose card, or which card. No real card company communicates like that.

I'm certain the phone number it allegedly came from is either cloned or spoofed, so can't put it on a website for alerts to scams over the phone.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I got a message from Mastercard asking me to confirm I had made some payments today with my credit card. Done in Ireland on an ipad apparently. One for £90 to argos today. Anyway I hadn't so they rang me and stopped my card. Apparently two attempts today to use it.
Some business I have rung to pay for items recently has passed on my card details. I'm never happy paying for things that way but it's the first time I have been caught out. Luckily Mastercard stopped both payments. No idea how they know its likely a fraud.

I've had phone calls from the bank when I've made a transfer. If to a new suppllier &a large sum. I wondered if that was some how a scam but they could tell me about transactions in detail so genuine.

Also had a call from power gen about a smart meter told me in great detail about the smart meter & that I must write down the serial number. Then started to ask personnal questions I did answer a few, but then realised they did not need to ask these questions & I told them so & put the phone down.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Had a number from a neighbouring phone exchange on the phone when I came home this afternoon, along with notice of a voice message. The message was an automated scam about misuse of a card for Amazon payments. No information about whose card, or which card. No real card company communicates like that.

I'm certain the phone number it allegedly came from is either cloned or spoofed, so can't put it on a website for alerts to scams over the phone.

Yes I get a couple of those a week.

 

[Paddington]

I gave a small donation to the John Price appeal with my Naff west card and got my card blocked, reason unusual transaction. They said they had tried to contact me by phone, I said I got at least one scam call a week from "bank", "credit card providers", "Amazon" etc so had ignored it. This was the same time Nigel Farage was being debanked, so got me wondering. According to "Amazon" I'm now the owner of at least a dozen, state of the art, smartphones, surprising really as we can only get a 3G signal on alternate days.

 

[bobk]

I got a message from Mastercard asking me to confirm I had made some payments today with my credit card. Done in Ireland on an ipad apparently. One for £90 to argos today. Anyway I hadn't so they rang me and stopped my card. Apparently two attempts today to use it.
Some business I have rung to pay for items recently has passed on my card details. I'm never happy paying for things that way but it's the first time I have been caught out. Luckily Mastercard stopped both payments. No idea how they know its likely a fraud.

Need to up your security . text to complete order

 

[MOG]

Hmmm, careful here. IU had a text (supposedly) from Lloyds to ask if I had made a payment of £100 to some unknown company the night before. I hadn't as our internet was down and I was home. So I text bacvk NO as asked. Then a new message saying they will need to stop my card so rng the number given urgently. Googled the number and it is a very well known scam. Not only a premium rate number but they will aslo try and get your card security details out of you (they already have the card number from Gawd knows where). I went on my internet banking too just to check and absolutely nothing showing there.
Just beware and double check everything.

 

[farmerm]

I gave a small donation to the John Price appeal with my Naff west card and got my card blocked, reason unusual transaction. They said they had tried to contact me by phone, I said I got at least one scam call a week from "bank", "credit card providers", "Amazon" etc so had ignored it. This was the same time Nigel Farage was being debanked, so got me wondering. According to "Amazon" I'm now the owner of at least a dozen, state of the art, smartphones, surprising really as we can only get a 3G signal on alternate days.

Well good luck because 3G is in the process of being turning off, its gone here on my network, so you are gonna be needing one of those state of the art 4G phones....

 

[Still Farming]

Waster on news yesterday jailed for fraud and theft.
Any how he allegedly became pally with another couple and took them out to a top restaurant and wined and dined them
and It didn't become apparent until weeks later when the couple's credit card statement came that it was all paid for with THEIR credit card.

Waster had cloned it or something allegedly???

 

[MOG]

Hmmm, just off phone to bank. Seems it was a genuine message from them and I had been scammed! All sorted now. Seems a lot of it about.

 

[Grassman]

Hmmm, just off phone to bank. Seems it was a genuine message from them and I had been scammed! All sorted now. Seems a lot of it about.

Thats two of us just like that. Makes you realise how much of it goes on!

 

[Werzle]

Better off ringing your bank using the number from a statement than ringing a number sent via a text wanting a reply.

 

[Grassman]

Better off ringing your bank using the number from a statement than ringing a number sent via a text wanting a reply.

The text on mine just asked you to reply with yes or no if you recognise the transactions. It comes on the regular text number that they use for transaction codes.
Then they ring on a number they use regularly.

 

[neilo]

Had a number from a neighbouring phone exchange on the phone when I came home this afternoon, along with notice of a voice message. The message was an automated scam about misuse of a card for Amazon payments. No information about whose card, or which card. No real card company communicates like that.

I'm certain the phone number it allegedly came from is either cloned or spoofed, so can't put it on a website for alerts to scams over the phone.

It makes me chuckle when we get a phone call or answerphone message from ‘your bank’. Usually hang up as soon as you ask them which bank that is.

I guess some must fall for it or they wouldn’t bother trying that line, sadly.

 

[4course]

Progress they call it and yet in nearly 55 years of paying by cash or cheque ive never had an issue, and yet now folk wont take cash or cheques and 90% of those I deal with want bacs payments or transfers, ive had no end of bother with card payment stopped , ring card provider, false purchases etc etc and the constant checking of accounts takes time which is yet another cost that cant be reclaimed to the business.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Progress they call it and yet in nearly 55 years of paying by cash or cheque ive never had an issue, and yet now folk wont take cash or cheques and 90% of those I deal with want bacs payments or transfers, ive had no end of bother with card payment stopped , ring card provider, false purchases etc etc and the constant checking of accounts takes time which is yet another cost that cant be reclaimed to the business.

Our fault of course.

 

[Grassman]

Progress they call it and yet in nearly 55 years of paying by cash or cheque ive never had an issue, and yet now folk wont take cash or cheques and 90% of those I deal with want bacs payments or transfers, ive had no end of bother with card payment stopped , ring card provider, false purchases etc etc and the constant checking of accounts takes time which is yet another cost that cant be reclaimed to the business.

Yes. I don't like the modern world. Doing the vat used to be reasonably straightforward. Invoices and bills all in one place. Then check the bank statements and add it all up.
Now it takes ages getting all the bills downloaded from various different sources. Email attachments. Online accounts like mobile phone and utility companies. Amazon account with some invoices available and some not.

 

[4course]

Yes. I don't like the modern world. Doing the vat used to be reasonably straightforward. Invoices and bills all in one place. Then check the bank statements and add it all up.
Now it takes ages getting all the bills downloaded from various different sources. Email attachments. Online accounts like mobile phone and utility companies. Amazon account with some invoices available and some not.

apparently this all saves time and cost yet it doesnt at our end in fact its becoming a significant cost that wasnt there a few years ago .

 

[Kidds]

Yes. I don't like the modern world. Doing the vat used to be reasonably straightforward. Invoices and bills all in one place. Then check the bank statements and add it all up.
Now it takes ages getting all the bills downloaded from various different sources. Email attachments. Online accounts like mobile phone and utility companies. Amazon account with some invoices available and some not.

I use Quickbooks for my accounts and regular bills such as mobile phone, Amazon Prime subscription, bank charges etc are all done automatically. You have to tell it to do so but once setup that's the end of it.

 

[Exfarmer]

I got a message from Mastercard asking me to confirm I had made some payments today with my credit card. Done in Ireland on an ipad apparently. One for £90 to argos today. Anyway I hadn't so they rang me and stopped my card. Apparently two attempts today to use it.
Some business I have rung to pay for items recently has passed on my card details. I'm never happy paying for things that way but it's the first time I have been caught out. Luckily Mastercard stopped both payments. No idea how they know its likely a fraud.

Most likely they had not got the cvc and had guessed a few times till locked out. I had the same on my AMEX a few months ago . Phone rang I was in Sicily and my card was in my safe at home . I was suspicious of the call but the guy asked for no details , just asked if I had tried to -purchase from a couple of companies. I replied no and he said it would be sorted but destroy card at first opportunity. New card came a few days later,