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I hope they catch the person/s responsible and burn them. I was planning to upgrade my PC within the next month but I may have to cancel or at least delay my plans :mad:
 
Lonewolf said:
I hope they catch the person/s responsible and burn them. I was planning to upgrade my PC within the next month but I may have to cancel or at least delay my plans :mad:
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Any chance of you taking out a civil suit if the cretins are caught by the police? That way, you are guaranteed to find out their name/names for future 'reference'! :)
 
Azagoth said:
Any chance of you taking out a civil suit if the cretins are caught by the police? That way, you are guaranteed to find out their name/names for future 'reference'! :)
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I would consider it based upon the advice given by the police and my bank.

Received a letter this morning informing me that I have been refunded the full amount :D
 
Skyfall said:
Lol, someone else other than me actually uses that phrase... I can't remember what its from though.
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Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels. The part with the cage at the ganja house. :)
 
Had £60 taken from my account the other day from a mysterious internet transaction, i picked up it right away though and canceled my card thankfully, got money refunded within a few days!
 
I feel the pain of those who have been subjected to fraud and money loss. These days though Banks/CC companies are understandble and generally give you back any money lost. It is terribly inconvenient though, to have to go through the hassle of reporting the lost money and not having the cash in your account when you need it, becuase it is in the process of being refunded.

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Strange thing was the bank told her not to report it to the police! Makes me think that the banks are making up figures about how secure chip and pin are.
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Reason: it would just be wasting yours and Police time. What would the Police do, apart from adding your daughter's fraud to the statistics (which the Bank would do anyway)?

Azagoth said:
Any chance of you taking out a civil suit if the cretins are caught by the police? That way, you are guaranteed to find out their name/names for future 'reference'! :)
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On a similar note, there is almost a 0% chance of them being caught as the Police won't bother using their resources to try and locate, apprehend and prosecute these small-time crooks.

Bank card fraud is a multi million pound (yearly) business and the Banks/CC issuing companies allocate a certain amount of money to fraud in their business model. It would probably cost more money trying to locate these fraudsters than to just write off the money as a loss.

Now, if £1M went missing from a bank account, that would be a whole different story...the Bank, the Police and everyone concerned would be busting a nut to find out where that money went.
 
sunama said:
I feel the pain of those who have been subjected to fraud and money loss. These days though Banks/CC companies are understandble and generally give you back any money lost. It is terribly inconvenient though, to have to go through the hassle of reporting the lost money and not having the cash in your account when you need it, becuase it is in the process of being refunded.



Reason: it would just be wasting yours and Police time. What would the Police do, apart from adding your daughter's fraud to the statistics (which the Bank would do anyway)?



On a similar note, there is almost a 0% chance of them being caught as the Police won't bother using their resources to try and locate, apprehend and prosecute these small-time crooks.

Bank card fraud is a multi million pound (yearly) business and the Banks/CC issuing companies allocate a certain amount of money to fraud in their business model. It would probably cost more money trying to locate these fraudsters than to just write off the money as a loss.

Now, if £1M went missing from a bank account, that would be a whole different story...the Bank, the Police and everyone concerned would be busting a nut to find out where that money went.
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Since the introduction of the new Fraud Act of 2006, the investigative side falls to the banks and their investigators because they have the resources and the police do not. When a suspect is identified the information is passed back to the police for processing. That helps the police immensely and couple that with the fact that the likes of SOCA are intrumental in dealing with major fraud but again, such good news doesn't interest the media.

Please be sure you know what really happens with fraud investigation before slagging off the police.
 
I didnt **** off the Police. I merely stated that they dont have the resources to chase up on bank card fraud to the tune of a few hundred pounds.
 
happened to me a while back, when the old carbon sheet card printers were in use in some places that didnt have magnetic scanners (there was still a few) the woman kept a copy of the c/foil. there'd been about £700 spent on catalogue gear. I phoned the bank and.. well.. i got it back, turns out this woman was one of a gang of ppl doing it, and to a lot of people, and they all got caught :)
 
I need to start checking my account every two days as I haven't seen my account for two - three months 'cos I am always withdrawing money like a daily basis. :(
 
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