Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:
> 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.
Exactly the same happened to me, I was stuck in Amsterdam over a long
weekend with no cash, loads of associated aggro, I used ATM's and fuel
outlets I had used many times before but this came up on their computer
as possibly fraudlent. Their attitude was unbelievable, their final
advice being I should get a friend or relative to Western Union me some
money. I have just changed my bank and have a current claim in the
County Court against the Halifax Bank for wrecked weekend plus
compensation. |