card fraud :(

[alboking_uk]

it happened to my as well last week i lost my wallet with my bank cards and driving lecense some nasty low life person had found it and used my cards online to buy stuff and to make it more worser for me he didnt just stop there he now started to use my identity and apply for credit cards under my name. Its been a night mare for me trying to stop all these credit cards and tell them its not me and police are being really stupid and not helping at all, they have the address of the person and everything but they wont go and arrest the person how stupid is that?

[River-Rat]

yep its crap

this was my mates event ( not me ) 10 years ago

2 cards where sent to his flat, but he only got 1,
someone every friday between 3-330pm was using a machine at tescos to take £100

this went on for 3 weeks, till he got his statement. He called barclays and said about it wasnt him. He can prove this as was at work ( resturant ) they were unhelpfull, trying to make out he gave his pin to someone.

funny thing is, tescos and the machine had no CCTV. so their frauld area, sat in a car one friday and watched people going to the cash machine and with a police officer stopped each one to check their card.

the person who was doing it, was a POST MAN!

[waqasahmed]

Update: I went to the bank today, just to check on my statement etc... and I saw that today I was reimbursed the money I was scammed out of. Thats a fairly quick turnaround lol. I thought I would be getting a letter though, though maybe not

[DJ67]

Good news indeed about the quick result.
There are far too many scumbags out there getting away with stuff like this though.
A couple of years ago I was on jury service and a woman (care worker) was in the dock for ripping off a blind 84 year old lady to the tune of £60000, over a period of two years. She got 13 months, meaning that she was out in less than 7. Not bad "wages" and not even hard labour.
Turns out she was robbing to pay off her husband's gambling debts.
DJ67