Thread: I'm a victim of skimming!

Hi mate sorry to hear of your loss When you say skimmed do you mean they got you card details by skimming the card physically?

We got back from Singapore last Sunday. Someone pilfered the wifes purse and did such a good job we don't know where or when. The first indication was my card got knocked back. The bank stopped the card after some slimy person had run up $4000 aud in jewellery purchases.

I'm assured by the card people that we won't have to pay it but until they have completed the process we have to find 4k

If there is one thing that gives me some comfort is the crime was committed in Singapore and they don't muck around with crims like we do here. Apparently they don't cane women but none the less if they find them I don't think it will be pretty.

On the flipside, the merchant that sold the jewellery to the crim might not get their money like Inc.

I had a similar event a few years back i was looking at buying a Dell computer.
I changed my mind as the service centre was in Delhi india (is that where the name of the company comes from ??? just kidding) it was hard getting the call centre chick to understand what it was i wanted to purchased but i pursiveered and then it dawned on me if it was this bad to order it imagine the help desk if anything went wrong !
So i rang back and cancelled it. two weeks later the call centre called back to say the laptop was on its way !
I said it better not be as it's been cancelled.
Three weeks later "hello Mr -------- your laptop is on its way ...again i told them the go.
Five weeks later i got a call from my bank "hello Mr ---------- have you recently been to delhi .....it would seem 5 star hotels are very cheap in that part of india, they did over a thousand quid (u.k. at the time) and bought heaps of really crappy designer badness.
The bank re-funded me straight away and the fraud dept got me to do a report with the cops ...why is it taking so long for you ?
Australia is a modern western country how can it take 4-6 weeks bizarre

Originally Posted by dullbird

Seriously though don't you wait for money to appear before sending goods?

of course, but 30 days down the track the bank can just take it back saying it was a ripped off card.... even tho they have approved the payment and put the money in the account in the first place...

makes it a bit hard...

To be fair to "That Bank", they contacted me before my statement arrived, questioning the validity of two transactions in Italy. I assured them that neither was mine, and my account was corrected immediately.

I suspect a lot depends on your record of purchases worldwide.

Best Wishes,
Peter

Not good at all vlad. There were a couple of young Asian guys doing cheque fraud in lithgow for a while. My grandad is the strata manager for a block of units and was in the bank one day lining up when a bank employee came up to him asking about a cheque that had his signature on it for the strata account. The reason for her asking was that the amount on the cheque was more than the amount in the account, he told her he didnt write the cheque and told him that it was that man over there who had tried to cash it so grandad approached him and he bolted. police never caught them but they had already taken $2000 from the account no problems and would have gotten away unoticed until grandad got a statement had they have not been greedy and gone back for more.

that sucks mate, i think it's bad enought that "internet banking" can take up to three days to transfere between accounts with different banks...

On a more positive note we'll have to go for a shoot down at belmont some time my .223 needs sighting again after the last trip plus the .375H&H will be lots of fun haha

Vlad, I hope it ends up the right way for you.
A couple of years ago my uncle, who maintains fast food equipment returned after doing the back blocks rounds (a 3 week trip) to discover $15000 missing from the business account! Thought his partner would answer the phone in Tahiti but he was mystified as well. Backtracking purchases, they discovered the culprit was a servo that had the security cameras angled to record PIN entry and a scimmer behind the counter. As they say though, crooks are dumb. Big mate bought stock for his shop with the card!?! $800 worth of nappies etc. All over, red rover. Reimbursed.
Dave.

Sorry to hear the news.
As for the wait????
M bank knows the response I wold give them and I have in the past when they had a claimed system crash and didn't credit my pay. I offered them 1 hour to get back to me with a solution or I would be collecting my family to move into the branch until I had my money. I also asked them to have our dinner ready by 5:30pm.

Within the hour they had a solution.
I was so convincing that my boss even offered to loan us money till the bank sorted things out.
A couple of days max or I would make their lives a real pain. One of the reason I dislike which bank.