Thread: WARNING**** Check your bank accounts

Eldest daughter got done for $1000 , started off at $10 then increased slowly till they tried a $500 withdrawal which trigger the alarm. Bank rang her and asked if she had just tried to make the withdrawal when she said no they shut the account.

Cheers Ean

Has happened to both my partner and I in the last couple of years. Both of us got hit with Westpac Accounts and I got hit with an ANZ account. Only two weeks ago my DBS account in Singapore got hit too by some suspicious Google transactions. In all cases the banks reacted promptly and funds were replaced. In the case of Westpac we both had to get replacement MasterCards.

We had around $1K taken out of our business account by some scumbags,shopped at Bunnings.

We have no idea,and the bank would not let on, how they did this,although they refunded the money in 7 days.

My BIL had a business payment going to a Chinese supplier for $80K intercepted and stolen.

It took the bank 6 weeks to refund the money.

They skinned my card at the petrol station a couple of years ago. Within 24 hours they were spending on 3 continents at the same time which triggered the bank to react.

I've had a couple of accounts hacked in the last five years.

One the vendor actually picked up and rang me from OS that someone had placed an order with their Chinese subsidiary (Sat phones were ordered!) and they cancelled the transaction, it didn't look kosher.
The bank tried to tell me nothing was wrong!
That ****ed me off!

The other couple of the times the bank actually picked it up and warned me that they'd closed the account, once was at 4:30am!

My wifes ac was hacked a couple of months back.
Purchases included heaps of wine and dating agency subscriptions.
Hang on.......

It's so easy to get someones PIN number, stand in any line like a petrol station or super market, bunnings etc and try to enter your card number there is no privsay and in servos the security camera is recording you so your pin pressing could be on camera, didn't they used to tell you don't give your PIN out as its like signing a blank cheque if they steal your card

I have a new CC in my pocket after the old card was used to try and fail to buy some stuff from Bunnings online. Bendigo bank kindly blocked that and several other transactions two weeks ago. New card took 2 days. I still had online access to my accounts.

Re Passwords a totally random and shockingly hard to impossible to recall password covers all my accounts and computers. I have a password wallet which has two step validation. One is a slightly possible password and the other is via my fingerprint on my phone. Im not paranoid as this is really easy. I did have another banks card used to buy a flight from Dubai to Hong Kong. That transaction was oddly tougher to stop. The plane was still in the air when I reported it and it honestly amazed me at the time the bank or MasterCard did nothing to try and catch the person who committed the fraud. I've grown up a bit and now know they do not really care as we all pay for the frauds via the ridiculously high rates they charge on Credit cards.

Link to a tough random PW generator, I generate 50 or so at a time and only use a few radomly picked from that list. I also edit the ones I use randomly. adding, deleting or changing capitALiZation Numbers and symbols.

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