Fraud

what is it with the eople in my house do we look stupid or gullable. first petes credit card was canceled and he had to be issued with a new one because soemone tried using his details, then my NI number was used by some scum bags and now I go to the pet shop the other day and my card says call supervisor who then had to ring for autorisation. I put it down to a one off but it happened again when i went for bread and milk. rang the bank this morning and they said they would ahve to issue a new one but then i got a call from the banks fraud department telling me that my card had been cloned and so was canceled. i now have to wait for a week for a new one which means i will have to keep using petes card which right now is a bummer cos he has his wallet and is at work so i am sat with no bread no milk for my coffee and to top it off i am on my last cig and pete won't be in for another 4 hours. to say i am not happy is an understatement. why cant people just act like normal human beings instead of scumbags

Grrrr Julie. Thats lousy!

Feel for ya Julie, I was victim to identy theft a week before christmas and they had managed to take 2.5grand out of my account! I did get it back but it was the worst thing I have ever had to go through, they had tried to open up numerous other accounts for loans etc. Some people are scum! ><

julie this is awful, they really are very selfish people who do this and have no regard for the trail of destruction they leave behind

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I had this too with my credit card. Someone was trying to use it in America I got a call from the building society the card was cancelled all OK in the end.

Ah what a bummer julie locks !
There are indeed some scumbags about who have nothing better to do than cause inconvenience.

Got any friendly neighbours who can lend you some milk and a few ciggies ? Or maybe the shop, if you're on good terms with them can sort you out until later ?

Saying that, I've just read your time of posting .. he'll be home soon, how have you coped ?? lol

i just mugged my kids. matthew came in earlier than expected so i mugged him and went to the shop. i have just been and got pete some money out for the week so i can keep his card till my new one comes

what i do is never use my main card on the net or in any shop if i want money from that account i will go inside of the bank to get it out.

Steve wrote:what i do is never use my main card on the net or in any shop if i want money from that account i will go inside of the bank to get it out.

beginning to think thats what i will start doing

it's the safest way i have another card wich i pay my bills with i always make sure there £200 in it all of the time, if some get my information they cant take out more then i got in.

we have 2 joint accounts one fo bills the other for spends its the spends one that was done

Steve wrote:what i do is never use my main card on the net or in any shop if i want money from that account i will go inside of the bank to get it out.

whats the point in having a card if you don't use it though?

I have one card, but I have two accounts, the account without the card has all my savings on it my card is just for spending. and I do all my bills etc online