Card cloning warning

[Brendan]

It?s all going a bit pete tong with this at the moment isn?t it. Almost everyone I know has had theirs done at some stage in the last 6 months. My wife most recently, she suspects the Barclays machine.

[Keef]

That is the well known super market Fear N' Boozin has used too Monica!

[monica]

Well that was the common shop between my three, one has gone over to the said shop to speak to them

[Mark]

just had a call from my bank, ?70.60 tried to be withdrawn from the Philipines, use in the last week:

1 Aug 2008 POS 31JUL08 SOMERFIELD , DULWICH

4 Aug 2008 POS 02AUG08 CO-OP GROUP, MARKSBURY

4 Aug 2008 POS 02AUG08 THE MONTAGUE INN , WINCANTON

4 Aug 2008 POS 02AUG08 TESCO , BATH

5 Aug 2008 POS 04AUG08 SAINSBURYS PLC , DULWICH

[Ant]

Have had a phone call from the bank about dodgy transactions. Have not used the card around ED much of late, but interestingly enough have been to Somerfield.

[cate]

Mark Wrote:

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> just had a call from my bank, ?70.60 tried to be

> withdrawn from the Philipines, use in the last

> week:

>

> 1 Aug 2008 POS 31JUL08 SOMERFIELD , DULWICH

> 4 Aug 2008 POS 02AUG08 CO-OP GROUP, MARKSBURY

> 4 Aug 2008 POS 02AUG08 THE MONTAGUE INN ,

> WINCANTON

> 4 Aug 2008 POS 02AUG08 TESCO , BATH

> 5 Aug 2008 POS 04AUG08 SAINSBURYS PLC , DULWICH

I would go back even further and see how often you use Somerfield/Sainsbury.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Obviously dodgy bookies at Wincanton!

[Otto]

My other bank just called. Withdrawal attempted in India on my other bank card with different bank. Had to close down account...awaiting new card...

and i just got my other card back and up and running though i am awaiting reimbursement of funds for that escapade...

going on holiday saturday. luckily, my mother and her cards will look after me!

thank goodness for mothers,

xo, otto

[cate]

Otto,

Where did you use your two different cards?

[lozzyloz]

I wonder if the cloning is happening via wireless card readers and some f*&%$r is sitting in a car or backroom of an empty shop downloading peoples info? Judging by this thread it seems to be a little hotspot round there. What are the police doing about it?

[Otto]

I used my cards in the hsbc machine mostly...I was feeling almost certain that was the spot....

I've used them in a few other small businesses on the lane, but, as they are family owned and staffed, i am sure they were not the places. Somerfield and Sainsburys on occasion...but will not anymore...after the other coincidences here.

As i work and have kids in ED, I never seem to get out of ED so must be a local thing. (and I do internet purchases with a card that has not been copied!)

xo, otto

[meccadave]

Hmm, I got done today too. Nice wake up call from HSBC saying some nice fellow in India had withdrawn ?140.

Most of the last week's transaction were made in Islington where the Mrs lives, but I have been in DKH Sainsbury a few times over the last few weeks.

Cheeky.

[bignumber5]

Used my card in Somerfield a couple of days ago, 3 transactions for just shy of a ton each made in Senegal this afternoon...

Fucking Fucker-dy fuck fuck...

Still, at least Natwest picked it up pretty quickly (got the call about half an hour after the forth transaction attempt was rejected), and the lady from the fraud team said that I'd definitely be entitled to a refund, although she had no idea when. Can't have it all, i s'pose.

[KiM]

Same here!!!

My Husband card was cancelled this morning and I got a call from the bank this evening. Both time someone was trying to access our accounts from India...

I haven't used my card in Somerfield for over 10 days though. But I used the HSBC cash point.

My Husband used both HSBC bank and Somerfield in the last few days

This is a little much! The police really should do sth about it.

It looks like business is going to be slow in ED this week-end :)

[triders]

Me Too . I got a call today to say my card had been cloned and used in Malaysia.

[monica]

My collegue spoke to his bank and they told him that they would not call the police, hes gone away now on holiday with little cash, because they had to cancel his card. It seems a little odd that there has been a hotbed of activity around that area. If i see my local friendly bobby i will have to have a chat with him in a very non commital way.

[edanna]

I also got a call today, card had been used in Malaysia. I went to the HSBC cashpoint yesterday and Sainsbury's.

[louisiana]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> I'm going to regret saying this - and I'm

> touching wood as I do - but am I the only one to

> have not been cloned yet?

>

> I've used all of the local cashpoints and used the

> card in most bars and restuarants, + SMBS, Val's

> grocers etc

I am not yet a cloning victim either Sean

I only use Sainburys or Somrfield once in a blue moon, and certainly not in the last six months. I can't remember the last time I used a card in there.

I don't buy petrol.

I have usd the HSBC cash machines, but not since the week before Glastonbury (so not since 16 July or so).

Locally I mostly use that debit card in places like Green & Blue, SMBS, East Dulwich Deli and similar. In other words, the local shops. But I also use cash quite a lot in the newsagent, Val's and so on.

On the card I use for cash and personal shopping, First Direct are now texting me my transactions every day and balance every week.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Not quite the same thing, but I tried to use two cards in HSBC and Barclays last week and they weren't having anything to do with them.

Walked up to Tesco Express and they both worked.

[Tegid]

Bit of a negative first post but both myself and my flatmate have been stung today, his bank quick to notice, mine not so.

The only common thread we can think of is that we have both used the HSBC ATM machines and used our cards at a close by popular ED supermarket within the last few days.

From this thread it's quite obvious this is a common crime taking place in a small radius.

[Otto]

yes - you are right. How to solve it now?

Best, Otto

[ed_pete]

Yet another instance - though not so far afield this time. I had ?300 taken from my First Direct account around 7:30pm last night from two ATM's in Norbury. I too have used this card at the same popular supermarket referred to in above postings.

[candj]

Perhaps I'm missing the point or it's somehow illegal, but can you not just go back into this popular supermarket and go to the management and tell them which cashier you used and explain what has happened? This happened to my husband a year or so ago at Cafe Richoux on Picadilly when buying lunch using a debit card he had never used before. Someone was trying to take money in Egypt the following day, but husband's bank refused. We then went back into Richoux the following day and told the manager what happened and have never seen our waiter since.

[Sue]

It's surely the card company or the police who need to do something (not that the police appear to be interested in card crime) - if an employee is sacked, they'll just go and do it somewhere else?

I'm scared to use a card anywhere round here now!!

[Sue]

f*****g hell, I've just had a call from First Direct fraud department, my debit card has been cloned too (attempts declined) and they've cancelled it.

Just to let you know, the card companies and police are acting on information received, they know there is a problem in East Dulwich and they are investigating.

:-S

Now I'm going to phone my credit card company as I've used that round here recently too :-S