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Credit card cloning .....
Does anyone have direct experience of credit card cloning ?
My card has been used to buy a load of air tickets with JET4YOU - and I've never used them !
Peter
My card has been used to buy a load of air tickets with JET4YOU - and I've never used them !
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Yes , my card was cloned, they spent £1.56 one day and when they knew they had got away with it bought 2 flights from Brussles airlines. My card company rang me and asked for my transactions for that day, once confirmed it wasn't me, they stopped my card and refunded the money. My son had the same, his was someone doing online gambling, spent £2,000, again it was investigated by the fraud squad and he got his money refunded. Quite frightening really.
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On a vaguely related topic, I've booked some flights online with GermanWings. My computer crashed before I could print out the ticket and I've not received an email confirmation from them. When I go onto their website with the confirmation number I wrote down it says I have no flights but they still took the money from my credit card.
Anyone here had any dealings with GermanWings to suggest what to do?
Anyone here had any dealings with GermanWings to suggest what to do?
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Santiago wrote:
I would have thought buying airline tickets is the dumbest thing to do with a cloned card as the user can be pretty easily traced.
I thought the same thing, as I would have thought that if your making your booking wouldn't it have to be in my name therefor passport too...it was investigated and I think they got who did it, but wouldn't give me any further information.
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A lot of airlines are now insisting that if you buy an E Ticket on the net,you have to show the credit card you used to buy it when you arrive to check in for the flight at the airport.
I thought chip and pin cards were supposed to stop all this cloning. Cloning is very common in the USA,but ,despite the supposed "superior" American technology,they haven't started to use chip and pin there yet.
I thought chip and pin cards were supposed to stop all this cloning. Cloning is very common in the USA,but ,despite the supposed "superior" American technology,they haven't started to use chip and pin there yet.
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Just an update .............. it may help others to avoid the problem :
The cards are stopped, I've made statements to my bank and local police, and I'm waiting for a questionaire from Visa.
As of now, I'm about Euro 1700 out of pocket. It seems, if they are certain it was fraud, I will probably be reimbursed. It is complicated by the date of the fraud - I was on my way home, so was in Malta, Spain and France the first day the card data was used. The air tickets were going to N Africa - so I'm not sure where the fraud will be investigated, if at all.
Trying to narrow this down, I think the fraud was done like this :
I bought a 4 hr internet card in a Maltese hotel. Two pc's were in a side room not overlooked by reception, but accessible via the entry door. My guess is that some sort of keystroke recording software was installed, then retrieved later. I used the machine to reserve a rental car through Hertz France (thus providing cc details), and this must have been one of the recorded transactions they captured.
Actual physical cloning of cards is more difficult with european cards as pretty well everyone is using an embedded chip these days ( introduced 20 yrs ago in France).
Not such a cheap break after all ?
Peter
The cards are stopped, I've made statements to my bank and local police, and I'm waiting for a questionaire from Visa.
As of now, I'm about Euro 1700 out of pocket. It seems, if they are certain it was fraud, I will probably be reimbursed. It is complicated by the date of the fraud - I was on my way home, so was in Malta, Spain and France the first day the card data was used. The air tickets were going to N Africa - so I'm not sure where the fraud will be investigated, if at all.
Trying to narrow this down, I think the fraud was done like this :
I bought a 4 hr internet card in a Maltese hotel. Two pc's were in a side room not overlooked by reception, but accessible via the entry door. My guess is that some sort of keystroke recording software was installed, then retrieved later. I used the machine to reserve a rental car through Hertz France (thus providing cc details), and this must have been one of the recorded transactions they captured.
Actual physical cloning of cards is more difficult with european cards as pretty well everyone is using an embedded chip these days ( introduced 20 yrs ago in France).
Not such a cheap break after all ?
Peter
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My own experience would suggest you be optimistic. After some dodgy transactions on my Visa card - the usual small items (ringtones) to check it would work and then a biggie - I was fully refunded. The Visa person I spoke to on the phone explained that it was the retailer's responsability if they accepted a fraudulent transaction, not that of the owner of the card. She said they probably wouldn't pursue the small items as it wasn't worth chasing up £6 or £7, but would certainly reclaim the largest amount. This amounted to over £800. I had to Google the name of the firm to find out that it was some Italian designer clothing outlet.mpprh wrote: It seems, if they are certain it was fraud, I will probably be reimbursed.
Peter
Italian designer clothing? Anyone who knows me would instantly know that I certainly had not been the customer.
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Not cloning but on the same theme
We went for a curry to our local(UK) with baby and todler...she only had popadums and chips and coke, after our meal stupidly I let her go with the nice waiter with my card , she came back smiling with my card and a dish of mints.
About a fortnight later my visa bill came through the door with 2 rather expensive transactions on them from a mail order company, I waited for Mr O to phone me and asked if he had bought me a suprise prezzie from this particular company......no.
I contacted the visa company and got more details of the transaction, contacted the mail order company who gave me a delivery address.........BINGO 6 doors down from the curry house. Streight to the police station to make a statement. All money refunded.
Another funny one, when I worked on the checkouts I had a knack of spotting dodgy customers, whether they were shoplifting or about to hand over a forged note. This particular day I had swopped a shift and was working an evening, where nearly all the staff were students. I spotted this guy in my queue , noticed he was a bit edgy and kept an eye on him.....he obviously felt uncomfortable and changed queues to a young lad in front of me. When it was his turn to be served I saw him hand in a credit card , saw that there was a delay in his transaction and suddenly he dissapeared out of the shop, I asked the operator what was wrong .........he said he was waiting for the card to be authorised, he had told the customer this and he said he would go and tell his friend he would only be a minute as he was parked outside. The card was declined........why did he try to use it? the name on the card was Jones, the lad using it............he was Asian!
We went for a curry to our local(UK) with baby and todler...she only had popadums and chips and coke, after our meal stupidly I let her go with the nice waiter with my card , she came back smiling with my card and a dish of mints.
About a fortnight later my visa bill came through the door with 2 rather expensive transactions on them from a mail order company, I waited for Mr O to phone me and asked if he had bought me a suprise prezzie from this particular company......no.
I contacted the visa company and got more details of the transaction, contacted the mail order company who gave me a delivery address.........BINGO 6 doors down from the curry house. Streight to the police station to make a statement. All money refunded.
Another funny one, when I worked on the checkouts I had a knack of spotting dodgy customers, whether they were shoplifting or about to hand over a forged note. This particular day I had swopped a shift and was working an evening, where nearly all the staff were students. I spotted this guy in my queue , noticed he was a bit edgy and kept an eye on him.....he obviously felt uncomfortable and changed queues to a young lad in front of me. When it was his turn to be served I saw him hand in a credit card , saw that there was a delay in his transaction and suddenly he dissapeared out of the shop, I asked the operator what was wrong .........he said he was waiting for the card to be authorised, he had told the customer this and he said he would go and tell his friend he would only be a minute as he was parked outside. The card was declined........why did he try to use it? the name on the card was Jones, the lad using it............he was Asian!
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What do you look like serge?
Do you know what, they were usualy well dressed, nicely spoken and very polite...........untill you told them that the card they were using had been declined and was being kept for its credit card company. Or you informed them that the £10 note they had just passed over was fake, or that the piece of lamb that was sitting at the bottom of their handbag needs to be passed through the scanner.
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Actually a "skimmer" is usually used to copy the magnetic strip on the back of the card. These are now so small they can be the size of a matchbox and hidden in the palm of the hand, and with a deft movement the card swept through it in a trice. These details are then sold electronically over the internet to "backward" countries (inc. USA) who don't yet use Chip-and-Pin.mpprh wrote:Just an update .............. it may help others to avoid the problem :
The cards are stopped, I've made statements to my bank and local police, and I'm waiting for a questionaire from Visa.
As of now, I'm about Euro 1700 out of pocket. It seems, if they are certain it was fraud, I will probably be reimbursed. It is complicated by the date of the fraud - I was on my way home, so was in Malta, Spain and France the first day the card data was used. The air tickets were going to N Africa - so I'm not sure where the fraud will be investigated, if at all.
Trying to narrow this down, I think the fraud was done like this :
I bought a 4 hr internet card in a Maltese hotel. Two pc's were in a side room not overlooked by reception, but accessible via the entry door. My guess is that some sort of keystroke recording software was installed, then retrieved later. I used the machine to reserve a rental car through Hertz France (thus providing cc details), and this must have been one of the recorded transactions they captured.
Actual physical cloning of cards is more difficult with european cards as pretty well everyone is using an embedded chip these days ( introduced 20 yrs ago in France).
Not such a cheap break after all ?
Peter
There are mechanisms to clone Chip-and-Pin cards and pin numbers but these are much more complex, usually involving wire-taps into the phone line connecting the vendor to Credit-Card-HQ and/or hidden cameras to record the keys entered on the pin-number keyboard.
The Credit Card companies keep very tight-lipped about the amount they lose to fraud each year (literally dozens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of pounds each year) because in the end we end up paying as part of the Credit Card markup on the goods we buy.
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Its funny, but they do look dodgy? I stop several every year, shoplifting or just looking dodgey in the pavilions that I run.Serge wrote:So, what does a dodgy customer look like then?
Shorter than average? Irish decendency? or .......................
Usually very normall but with somethig just wrong!!!!!
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I saw others had waited for a long time, so I was pleased it was sorted out in just over 1 month from the time I reported it. I'd rather seen the refund as surprise spending money around next Xmas.thumbelina wrote:That's great news! Well done!
And - in the grand scheme of things - didn't take TOO long to sort out!
They did say that they reserved the right to take the refund back in the event that I received a refund from JET4U where the tickets were bought. The bank are probably trying to recover the money from them. I've had no contact with JET4U, and I guess I can't reasonably expect to keep 2 refunds for the same loss
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You might have given your credit card information into some people or website. You must change your credit card information to stop it. Go to your bank now so that everything will be fixed at once.
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