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Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam Posted on: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:52:29 +0200

Make credence recognised that on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:50:03 +0100,
Graham Murray has scripted:

>"Tom Bradbury" writes:
>
>> Maxwell Keegel, first secretary of the Sri Lankan High Commission in London,
>> said: "They extract the pin and details from the cards and within minutes
>> this information is sent to LTTE agents who operate in remote parts of the
>> world, as far away as Thailand and Indonesia.
>>
>> "And the money goes unwittingly from people's accounts and ends up going
>> into the LTTE's arms activities."
>
>Surely it must raise (hopefully very loud) alarm bells if a card is used
>in quick succession in two widely separated locations. As it is claimed
>that the PIN is captured, this implies that the fraud involves
>cardholder present transaction (or withdraw from ATMs) using a cloned
>magnetic stripe card. As the same card cannot legitimately be in two
>places at once or be moved too rapidly from one place to another, should
>this type of fraud not be easier to detect than CNP frauds?

Lloyds TSB cancelled one of my credit card when I flew into Hong Kong.
They could have called me before doing this, but they didn't.

When I finally got through to them, they said the process to
reactivate the card could take a few days.

Great, so you can . it up easily, but you can't un. it without a
great effort. I changed banks after that.
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