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| Non Diving Posts: Discuss Credit Card Fraud.. A pre Christmas warning. in the Non-Diving Related Forums forums: Be careful out there. I have just had £784 put on my credit card by someone - and it wasn't ... |
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| Maybe a bit drastic to bin your machine mate Possible explainations:- 1. Guess the details / use software to generate CC numbers* 2. Someone at the bank sold your details in either case - you were (probably) not at fault. Just close the account pronto as it's been compromised. Thanks for the reminder though! G * there are certain numbers associated to Banks and countries leaving only a handful of numbers to generate
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| Yep, I'd say it was through the bank's computer rather than through yours. Most banks have pretty lousy security set ups (a chum tells me) and I know for sure that the first 8 numbers on your card are common to your bank and type of card, so only another 8 to invent. It's likely those £'s ended up on your card - and probably a load of other peoples too as a smoke screen to disguise the ££££££££££'s that presumably went onto Mr Dodgy's cards. |
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| Dartford, what can you expect?
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| Worryingly 'Mr Gbenga Kabli' is an anagram of George Jablonski? so I'd suggest it's an inside job Glad they picked it up quickly mate. Safe diving, Steve
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| I had someone do a balance transfer of £9,100 against oe of my credit cards last year. The credit card company spotted this and called me. Although they said they would cancel it, they still put through the direct debit (I pay the card off in full each month). Of course I didn't have this amount in my current account but my bank 'helpfully' transferred the money from one of my savings accounts because I was a good customer and they didn't want me to default on the payment! Took a bit of sorting out. What was worrying was that the transaction was initiated over the phone and according to the credit card company, the person had all my confidential details including my password. They initially accused me of allowing one of my sons to have access to this data which was nonsense. |
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Only joking, but very easy to get complacent, so thanks for the reminder, especially at this time of the year when it might be more difficult to remember when cards are used. |
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e.g. How To Generate *Valid* Credit Card Numbers — Money, Matter, and More Musings Im sure the checksum creater is on the internet somewhere so it would be the work of a moment to generate Credit Card Numbers
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