unauthorised transactions on my acc, how ?

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I've just checked my bank acc on-line and I have some unauthorized transactions on my acc (again), one of them is 'HME RTL GRP CARDS' for £400, the bank has told me that it's something to do with Argos made using a card I reported stolen back in June so how on earth they still managed to use it god knows, but the puzzling one is 'PAYPAL *JELSOFT' for £97, the thing is I've checked my paypal acc and there are no transations that have been made for months and certainly not for that amount :confused:, is it possible that who-ever took the money just labled it PAYPAL to make it look like a PAYPAL payment ?

Now in regards to the first payment as I've stated it was made using a card that was reported stolen back in June, it was stolen by a work college, I made a thread about it here,

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17754535

I'm not sure if it was the same person yet as he went away to Portugal on the 25th and the last £400 transaction was made in the UK over the telephone (I was told by the fraud squad) is dated the 3'rd of January, but then I was thinking because of the Christmas period it could have been made earlier but only went through on the 3'rd, anyway I'm gonna report it to the police this time.
 
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Your bank will refund you any money and will transfer your account to a new account. Slight pain in the neck but it means you are protected again.

You should also be protected by paypal as well due to the fraudulent transaction - either they or your bank will refund you.
 
WTF, the bank have fully cancelled the card that they should have cancelled in the first place and assure me that no more money should go missing from my acc and then today I check and find another unauthorised transaction,

It's only £4, but you would'nt believe where it went, WWW.MUSLIMAID.ORG :rolleyes:, someones setup a direct debit in my name to pay £4 into a Muslim charity every month, is someone having a laugh or what ?, I'm getting paranoid now thinking it maybe someone I dealt with in MM, probably not but I can't help thinking it.
 
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well maybe the thief is trying to make amen’s for his wayward behaviour by being charitable although i dont think he's got the entire idea yet
 
Well the card that was reported stolen has only been in the hands of one guy and that was a (so called) friend of mine in work when he stole it off me back in June, he ended up giving me the card back the next day and my manager got the money that was missing out of my acc taken out of his wages and paid into mine, I've just got a sneaky suspicion that he may of copied all my card details down as a couple of the transactions that was setup were done over the phone, anyway I've just updated the bank with a crime ref number so hopefully they can investigate it further, I just pray for his sake that it's not him, the thing is though he is'nt Muslim, why would anyone steal £4 out of my acc and pay it into a online Muslim charity, I just feels someones joking with me.
 
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re the small payment, from what i've heard it's not unusual and often done as a "test" to see if it'll work, if it goes through ok they then go onto bigger things (one day it's a fiver at a coffee shop/newsagents, the next day it's a 50" full HD plasma and top of the range PC)
 
What i dont understand about crimes like these is if something purchased online then there will be a delivery address why cant the police just go and knock on the door of said delivery address and arrest the guy to the nearest 50inch plasma screen
 
I just can't believe how insecure banks are. It should be impossible for this sort of thing to happen. Everytime you need to make any sort of transaction, it should require a 20 char random alphanumeric password.
 
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