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Banking / Card Scam
I was paying a new trader with a debit card and rightly expectd a message on the mobile with a code number
and got two! - this is a criminal scam, code no 1234 will secure the purchase for £65 - which I wanted
and also the same number 1234 will enable £330 to be transferred to Vanquis Bank which I didnt want
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Surely if it is for two separate transactions, you should receive two differing code numbers?
"If you do 1234 - you will pay £65 and below it - if you do 1234 you will transfer...."
Clearly a hack - but I did wonder if it were RBS or miss X
SO I rang RBS and got a heavily accented hello-girl ( the one who told me it didnt matter : the losses were mine) and finally ( having told me it was all down to me anyway) we changed the cards
Bread and water this week end I think
Thinl post office
if you buy X for £65 and dont get X ( actually it is a service on Monday so is to be detemined) then it is not aloss
and by plugging in 1234 ( I didnt by the way) - I would authorise a payment of £330 to vanquis ( it is a bank by the way) and THAT isnt a loss either
You should be working on an RBS switchboard ! they need you
There is so much doubt about this.... the transcipt is
WARNING if someone has asked for this code they are a criminal. Code 387594 confirms a purchase on your card of 65.0 GBP to SQ* I love my ears Ltd.
WARNING if someone has asked for this code they are a criminal. Code 387594 confirms a purchase on your card of 330.0 GBP to Vanquisbank
- - - so I didnt plug the code in and £65 was taken only.
Note the three figure security code on your card is a PIN
so I had ALOT of " but you have geeven dees peen to de parson."
NO I have nt. I have given the security number
dat eez dee peen
The PIN is a four figure number and I havent given that
dat eez anodda peen
and the third PIN was 387594
and so I cd see the answer "yes I have givenmy PIN" would be deemed no matter what I said, and the loss wd be mine.
'm not surprised they weren't helpful if you communicated with RBS in the way you have on this thread.
so I shd have said - "yes yes I am lying down likea piece of carpet, Ihave given all three pins, thank you thank you!"
erm OK but I dont think I wd have got more money.
but you know, I will try it one day and report
altho see above there has been widespread disbelief that one code number cd be applied to two transactions
when I described such to my sister in law, she showed no surprise at all, and added, yes I know....
( shades of Diddy - he of the tax charge and doddy ash - I havent spoken to my ( X - mother in law / sister in law) by telephone for a year: I didnt like to interrupt her)