bankcard skimming

[jessica]

Signed into my online bank account this morning and was horrified to find that someone has spent £1,300 on my credit card.
one small payment of £3.95 then two of £634.12p and £634.13p to a well known catalogue company in liverpool.
Be careful out there.
I am very careful with my cards. it appears it was skimmed either in ASDA. Or Tesco..
How scarey is that. baring in mind i am very card security aware.

[Malh001]

How did they skim it in Asda or Tesco's? I thought they had to take your card and run it through a special piece of equipment, usually out of sight?

I hope it gets resolved soon.

Edited by Malh001 on Thursday 4th June 22:03

[KEET]

Cash machine outside perhaps? My local Tesco used to have real problems with theirs. Hopefully your bank will sort it out swiftly.

[Bree]

If you think it was skimmed at ASDA/Tesco, have you been using pay@pump at the Petrol Station?

They are the card readers that seem to be being targeted in our local area at the moment - easy to get to and rarely covered by close-quarters CCTV.

[jessica]

not outside or at a petrol pump.
regular check out... so very very scarey. they must distract the till operater to fix the bit in the card reader. or the checkout operator is the scammer. maybe it would be worth looking for my till receipt

[vincenz]

I used to work at an Asda when I was a student and I heard of one member of staff getting sacked for using a crayon and piece of paper to quickly draw over the embossed number on the front of the card, not sure if they were able to remember the 3 digit security number on the rear when they handeled it, then use it for online/telephone purchases.

Could have been balls in fairness, it was a few years ago before chip and pin