My bank account hijacked by mobile phone hackers

footman

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I went to use my Paypal account last Sunday to pay for an ebay item and the card was blocked.

Turns out the bank blocked it because they saw an Orange and an O2 debit each for £30. The swine took another £30 out on a Vodafone top-up moments before the account was blocked.

The bank will repay me and I've contacted all 3 providers fraud departments as well as the police unit dealing with this type of crime.

Is there any chance of these scroats getting caught?
 
No chance of them even bothering for £90. You'll get the money back, they'll "launch an investigation", it'l do nothing but state the obvious, and everyone goes about their business.
 
Happened to me. 3 weeks later they also tried to change my credit card address to theirs, had all of my personal details, applied for numerous cards (Id already been flagged by the fraud dept at the bank so they all failed). Not pleasant. Horrible having your ID stolen.
The fact that everything with my name and address is shredded / made illegible, I take supreme care on the internet with purchases and card details, and am generally switched on. The still got it, so whats the point. I still shred stuff, and keep online security, but all it takes is one rogue website.
 
Happened to me a while ago.

Filled in several forms, and within 3 weeks it was all returned.
 
They aren't mobile phone hackers :/

They've just nicked your card details probably at some petrol station.
 
Happened to me recently with my Llyods TSB Visa debit card. I do virtually all my shopping, billing and online banking online.

I recently received my new card a few weeks ago after my previous card was flagged and blocked after 2x £700 purchases at an online retailer of electronics equipment. The Llyods fraud dept sent me a text and left me a voice mail before I got in touch with them and their orders were removed off the system.

What the OP experienced isn't 'hacking', your card detail just got 'swagged' by some dodgy store clerk. When I worked at Pizza Hut during my college days employees were always doing stuff like this, and fired for it. The above has happened to be about 3 times in 5-6 years and Llyods have been brilliant at all times. Hacking is an overused word nowadays.
 
This appears to happen a great deal.
Surely O2 know what phone has received the top op, can traces not be done in that method, or the phone simply shut down at sim?
Shutting it down at sim would force someone to actually come forward to complain at which stage you nab thm.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
This appears to happen a great deal.
Surely O2 know what phone has received the top op, can traces not be done in that method, or the phone simply shut down at sim?
Shutting it down at sim would force someone to actually come forward to complain at which stage you nab thm.
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You dont understand whats going on, sims are free, they use the topup to test the card details.
 
Tefal said:
They aren't mobile phone hackers :/

They've just nicked your card details probably at some petrol station.
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I know they're not, I'm just so hacked off I couldn't think of the right words.

Like other posters in this thread I've been as careful as I possibly can with my personal and banking details.

Somehow I suspect that Paypal may have been "hacked" for details.
 
footman said:
I know they're not, I'm just so hacked off I couldn't think of the right words.

Like other posters in this thread I've been as careful as I possibly can with my personal and banking details.

Somehow I suspect that Paypal may have been "hacked" for details.
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Only way paypal will have been "hacked" is phishing on your end or at a stretch password guessing.

plus iirc paypal don't actually show your card details anywhere if you go to edit details it won't show you the number.


If paypals servers had actually been hacked and bank/card details released it would be international news.
 
Tefal said:
Only way paypal will have been "hacked" is phishing on your end or at a stretch password guessing.

plus iirc paypal don't actually show your card details anywhere if you go to edit details it won't show you the number.


If paypals servers had actually been hacked and bank/card details released it would be international news.
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that leaves the curry house down the road then!
 
footman said:
that leaves the curry house down the road then!
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I wonder why I'm not surprised :p I've already mentioned that my card was comprised recently and given that I order pizza from 'The Hut' every Friday I am rather suspicious - especially given that I used to work there years ago.
 
The bank will just right off the £90 they will never be caught.

Used to work in credit card fraud, mobile phone topups are a common thing, they norm try it with 1p or £1 transaction through ebay/paypal for example to verify the cards good then nail it for topups/ online transactions
 
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