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Luckily I logged into my account last night about half 12 to transfer money to somebody I owed and noticed that within the last half hour a faster payment had been made to, "C Purcell" for the amount of

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I work in the industry and have seen a few things.

 

In particular during my spell working in Piccadilly there was a cash machine at the top of Oxford Road that was notorious for card cloning, I think it was the HSBC one. I had two customers come in the same week with similar problems, and the pattern was always the same. Customer uses the cashpoint, then within 24 hours there are a series of

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My absolute favourite happened very recently. This quiet fellow in his mid forties went into a room privately with one of my worker bees to say he had some unauthorised payments, and Stu came out red in the face and stifling a laugh. The transactions were to a company called Pornberries, which prompted hysteria among all of us and mass speculation as to what exactly Pornberries are. Joke on joke, our head office refused to refund the money, as they reckoned there was adequate evidence that it actually was him, namely numerous subscriptions and payments to places like Adult Friendfinder, "Just For Tonight" and various other porn sites. Poor bugger. Love of grot has meant that even if he has been frauded, it's not out-of-character enough for us to be interested.

 

Last year I went to the cash point to check id been paid and take some money out, and whilst i had been, it was substantially less then i was expecting.

 

Went to the bank and did some digging, turns out id emptied my account pretty much as sson as i got paid the month before (i was aware of this) and then id been charged

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I had my debit card nabbed on one of my USA accounts. Annoyingly it was used in the UK. Some hotel rooms, some train tickets and temporary car insurance. I assumed it was someone on the run, but I do find the temporary car insurance an odd choice for a criminal.

 

It was a bundle of fun going to the bank and telling them there were a $1000 worth of fraudulent charges on my account and having them going "you sound....British" and then grilling me over it.

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