Fraud protection

[Satch]

Many will have seen the press coverage of call centre staff selling personal details and banking information. This makes many people a candidate for identity theft.

To cut a long story short I have recently suffered a number of attempts to steal cash from my online and telephone bank account, the most recent event leading to £1500 being transferred from one account to another and then vanishing via a cash withdrawal effected at a north London branch using a forged photocard driving licence as ID.

Nobody at the bank concerned seem surprised that this was possible and did not they dispute the fact that I had not accessed the account, wheras a year or two ago the stock response was that this was "impossible" and that I must be trying to scam them.

Police informed, some of the usual nonsense but they refunded in full within 2 days. (Anybody care to guess why some UK retail banks are now making more "bad debt provisions"?)

If you think anyone has your details you are strongly advised to make a protective registration with CIFAS.

http://www.cifas.org.uk/protective_registration.asp

 

[adam1]

Identity fraud is the next big scam since credit card fraud is on the way down due to chip and pin. My brother recently received a lottery scam from Spain asking for passport, driving licence and account details so he could receive his 0.5 million euro prize. He was abit unsure of what to do but after i searched the web the lottery scam letter was exposed. They even had a telephone number on which the person on the other end in Spain seemed genuine. Its a very easy trap to fall for but if it sounds too good to be true then it usually is.

I applied for a Citibank card a few years back and once issued had several large 1000s pounds of purchases made in Europe. I had never been to these countries and so the bank ignored the transcations....seems international banks like citibank are very prone to this insider dealing....

Glad you sorted it......