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Creditcard Fraud
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document.write("My c/card got stolen last year. I immediatley reported it stolen. There where 7 attempts to use this c/card at several petrol stations (with cameras). No one was arrested! So yea, in theory, sounds nice, in practise, not so nice. Allways stay with your card!!. Jan");
document.write("Card Fraud
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document.write("Why don't the banks simply add a pin no to the credit cards? Or am I missing something?. Nut");
document.write("I got skimmed...
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document.write("I got called a week ago by the bank, asking me if i just spent R4000 in spain? Luckily the poeple at ABSA blocked the transaction.. JOHN");
document.write("Trust no one
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document.write("My mother got ripped off last week in a shoe shop (it was definitely there cause it was the only place she used it). The guy must have skimmed her card cause the next day the bank phoned her to say they had picked up suspicious activity on her account. The guy tried a number of times to push through transactions of R5 000 to R10 000. It was blocked. My mom went to the Shoe #### manager to complain and he was less than helpful.. Herb");
document.write("Watch out for McDonalds.
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document.write("Two people I know had their cards skimmed at McDonalds Parklands and Kenilworth in CT. Watch out!
The one at Parklands was doing it right in front of the person. He did not even see them doing it, that's how good they are.
So be paranoid people.
In both instances they use Easy Pay transactions to perform payments, so I think this should be tracable if the police and investigators are fast enough, but we all know they are not.
These transactions happens within minutes from when the cards were skimmed, so they have a very good system going.
The person whos' card was skimmed at Parklands thought to hell with this and made a case at the police station instead of just letting the investigators handle it. They went to McDonalds to pick up the woman and she already left. Looked at the cameras and saw how she skimmed the card, holding it in her hand next to the machine and swiping it first through the skimmer, then the card reader with a single swiping. So they are professionals.
My card and brother inlaws cards were both stolen at the same time. These guys had a party at Game, Incredible connection and then hired a car at the airport.
The guy at the airport did not even check the licence. He was seriously ####ed and called me with an attitude trying to get me to admit something or other.
Anyway, the investigator tracked them, but we never got any further details from them.
Scary stuff.. MTBer");
document.write("Me too
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document.write("The guys who cloned my card went for a Pizza and a Movie in Mondeor, JHB. I wonder what they went to see. Probably something with Owen Wilson. Scumbags.. Edward");
document.write("Beluga V and A
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document.write("My husband's credit card was cloned at Beluga in the V and A waterfront. When we phoned to complain to management they said it couldn't possibly have happnened at theri restuarant and were not interested in doing anything about it. Shocking, they could at least have pretended to be interested in what their staff were up to. Complete lack of care for their customers. ");
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document.write("creditcards should only be active when a pin is punched on the POS terminal. Debit cards are thus safest.. willy winkle");
document.write("V&A Employee Bust!!
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document.write("Yeah, I got nailed for about R15000.00 a few years back so when I bumped into my mate looking rather shocked but pleased with himself at the soap and health shop in the V&A recently I had a good chuckle...he had alerted the fraud division of suspicious behaviour at the shop after his card got copied. I witnessed the fuzz removing the guilty staff member cuffed after having found the device in her possession and the cash she had just withdrawn from his account. At least this one ended with the fraudster been bust!!! never ever let your card out of your site for a second!!! All decent restaurants have remote card stations so no need to take your card away and if they do stop them!! When are we getting the new pin code card similar to the UK!!!. Paul");
document.write("I got skimmed
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document.write("I got skimmed about 10 years ago - about R34000.00 was spent over 1 single weekend in Hong Kong. Std bank was superb. We think the skimming took place in Pick n Pay in Sea Point at the time.. Mark");
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document.write("We should be allowed to swipe our cards through the machine ourselves, instead of handing the card over to staff - no one else should have access to our card - not even to swipe it. . Anita");
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document.write("Spot on Anita! I was so impressed the last time I was overseas (Holland) where I never handed my card over and always swiped it myself. The card simply never left my hand.
It seems more than odd that our banks have not changed the card swiping business to that system, and/or insist on a pincode whenever it is used.
What is going on here?
Wytze. Wytze Voerman");
document.write("I GOT SKIMMED
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document.write("My card was skimmed and used in Canada to the tune of R25K! I suspect a couple of Cape Town restaurants...... A");
document.write("CARD SKIMMING
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document.write("My husbands ABSA debit card was skimmed in George at either Game or Clicks. The guys even managed to transfer R50'000 from his Money Market account onto his cheque account. The transfer was made in the Cape Town area only 3 and a half hours after the skimming!!! They either drove like hell or they can transfer the information long distance!!! We were not as lucky as some of you whom were informed by ABSA about the unusual transactions. It was not funn to sit in the Police station for 4 hours!!! So be carefull!!
. Rosa");
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