You have to go through the companies complaint process first, you can't go straight to the ombudsman they will just turn you away.if you got time complain to the financial ombudson not on the scam or anything but mainly as they said if it happens again doubtfull we will reimburse you. what a joke of a thing for a bank to say
The money lost is probably less than would be spent on all the Karen's calling up every other day
Anyone else have no idea how this could have happened given the details the OP has shared so far?
If it's a card you leave in the drawer, it's probably worth putting a permanent freeze on it until it's required.
Would that stop all direct debits / standing orders? I know some banks have flags now which means they can't be used online.
It's possibly an inside job at the place that issues the cards since if memory serves a large number of card numbers were leaked by someone working on the inside who had access to that data.Definitely not a keylogger that card is not used anywhere and certainly not online. That account is pensions in, direct debits out occasional dump to a savings vehicle. All done by my wife who would rather write cheques than use her debit card. my card has never left the house since it arrived shiny new from the bank.
I have a seperate current account and card for online use from a different bank so there is a firewall airgap about 100 yards long along the high street.
I had an ISA with TSB for a short while, wasn't that much money in it, anyway I wanted to move the ISA to another bank which I had done in the past no problems.
Anyway, went to do the same with TSB but no...... They couldn't do anything other than let me take it as cash because I didn't have a current account with them.
So I had to take the cash several grand, walk in 50 yards to NatWest to pay it back in.
I had free takeaway the other day via FoodHub. Delivery was supposed to be 45 mins but hadn't arrived after 2 hours so I contacted FoodHub and asked them to cancel order and refund me. They did and 1 min later the food arrived. Money went back on my card yesterday. Winner!
Wonder how much money is lost to late deliveries and refunds per year. Free takeaway for Lee.
Given the insane margins I doubt anyone is losing sleep over a few "extremely happy" Customers getting refunds. I went through a phase of ordering expensive pizza from a local wood fired Italian pizza shop, literally every time it came battered - but still totally edible. I complained each time, and each time received a full refund!Wonder how much money is lost to late deliveries and refunds per year. Free takeaway for Lee.
I would have told the delivery driver but he had already left it on my door step and dashed back into his car. Heh.