Credit Card Scam

[Snoring Rhino]

I'm sure non of us would be dumb enough to fall for this, but just in cases we have friends who may be gullible enough - be alert to this.

I receive emails from a number of ex employee’s mailboxes and this popped up this morning. All looked very professional with nice logo's etc, but it quickly leads you into a page asking for your Social security number (its US based, but there are probably UK versions) Visa numbers and PIN numbers etc.


DONT DO IT.

....


SunTrust Bank Alert Message

We recently reviewed your account, and we suspect an unauthorized ATM - withdraw based in Europe. Therefore, as a preventive measure whe have temporary limited your access to sensitive SunTrust features.


To ensure that your account is not compromised please login to SunTrust Internet Banking by clicking this link, verify your identity and your online account will be reactivated by our system.


- Click on: https://internetbanking.suntrust.com/
- Enter your Username and Password.
- Verify your identity with SunTrust Bank
 

In order to receive a full refund please enter the corect information.


If at any time you require assistance, please contact our Online Account Services customer hotline at 1-800-382-3232 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Important Information from SunTrust Banks

Many financial institutions and companies that conduct business on the Internet, including SunTrust, have become the target of fraudulent email and Web site scams.To report a suspicious email, pop-up Web page or Web site, please forward information about it to abuse@suntrust.com.   If you have provided personal or account information in response to a fraudulant email or Web site, fill out our Online Fraud Form or immediately contact SunTrust at 1-800-227-3782.
 
Sincerely,
SunTrust E-Banking Department

[Chris (Liverpool Boys)]

Yes totalyy agree as some of you will know I used to work for a bank until a victim of Offshoring.

But if you ever recieive an email from your bank asking you too confirm details ie PIN, LOG IN ID, PASSWORDS.

NEVER give these out.

IF IN DOUBT RING YOUR BANK AND CHECK WITH THEM OR IGNORE. iF IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THERE FRAUD DEPARTMENT WILL WRITE TO YOU OR RING YOU THEN WRITE.

[smokie]

I had a quite amazing experience this weekend. I went to Belgium via France. Here's the first bit:

Arrive Citie de Europe, buy some perfume in Citie de Europe on Tesco credit card
Go into Carrefour, spend a load of dosh on same card.
Drive along to Adinkerke, go to cheap fag shop. Use same CC for £350 worth of fags. Shop assistant said she needs to call Brussels to authorise, have I got another one?

Fumble about and start transaction with new card. About to sign the bill when my phone rings. It's my daughter, back in the UK. "Tesco have just been on the phone, could I call them back immediately".

So, still mid transaction, I call them. They are "just checking" about two earlier transactions AND the transaction I'm still in the middle of!

As soon as I'd confirmed the transactions, they OK'd the card for use abroad for the rest of the weekend.

I am gobsmacked by their alertness. On previous occassions they have stopped the card when I've forgotten to tell them I'd be abroad (Sebring last year, for one!).

I guess they are losing so much money on fraud that they have to be on the ball. For which I am grateful.

[Gilles]

I just received this Sun Bank email  

[Andy Zarse]

I had a quite amazing experience this weekend. I went to Belgium via France. Here's the first bit:

Arrive Citie de Europe, buy some perfume in Citie de Europe on Tesco credit card
Go into Carrefour, spend a load of dosh on same card.
Drive along to Adinkerke, go to cheap fag shop. Use same CC for £350 worth of fags. Shop assistant said she needs to call Brussels to authorise, have I got another one?

Fumble about and start transaction with new card. About to sign the bill when my phone rings. It's my daughter, back in the UK. "Tesco have just been on the phone, could I call them back immediately".

So, still mid transaction, I call them. They are "just checking" about two earlier transactions AND the transaction I'm still in the middle of!

As soon as I'd confirmed the transactions, they OK'd the card for use abroad for the rest of the weekend.

I am gobsmacked by their alertness. On previous occassions they have stopped the card when I've forgotten to tell them I'd be abroad (Sebring last year, for one!).

I guess they are losing so much money on fraud that they have to be on the ball. For which I am grateful.

Smokie

It's fantastic service from Tesco. Do they also call you to tell you you've left your wallet on the car roof, in the ferry cabin etc?  

[gibberish]

My last job (before the sensible one I've got now) was linked to financial services regulation, and it's such a big thing with card fraud just now, that you simply have to ignore anything that is remotely unexpected.

The number of scams running have reached epidemic proportion, and for heavens sake shread your bank statements etc.  ID theaft / fraud is now the biggestst scam in the world.  Cover your hand when typing the PIN at the ATM.  (Practice damn it) you can lose everything to these scumbags.

[Rhino]

Had a stupid friend who used to send everyone e-mails warning of various scams. Most of the time they were the happened to a friend of a friend type, and never existed.
Then one friday they went to get some money out of the cashpoint and the card was swallowed. Then a man appears and says 'that happened to me, try putting the pin in again.'
Stupid friend does, nothing happens. reports card missing on MONDAY!! suprise suprise the account had been emptied.
When they told me i felt like slapping them. At least they dont send anymore scare e-mails.

[Matt Harper]

[
It's fantastic service from Tesco.

Agree. Some low-life broke into my car a few years ago and stole my wallet, amongst other things (yeah, I know - shouldn't have left my gear in the car - but in broad frickin' daylight, pub carpark, loads of people around bla, bla, bla). The theiving bastard was still using one of my credit cards (for sub 20 quid purchases) over a year later.

ID theft is the big worry here in USA, though I remember a visit Ricardo and I made over to the US for the Indy 500 in 1990. When we got into Boston Logan, Ricardo used a BT calling card to let the missus know he'd arrived. Some a-hole captured his calling card number (probably using a pair of binoculars, as he keyed it in). By the end of the race weekend, I believe they had racked-up around 8000 quid's worth of calls (predominantly to Bangladesh and Pakistan). I know that BT are generally regarded as twaites, but they were civilised enough to realise that he was a victim and didn't stiff him for the bill.

There are parasites lurking everywhere - bastards, the lot of 'em.

[Chris (Liverpool Boys)]

Had a stupid friend who used to send everyone e-mails warning of various scams. Most of the time they were the happened to a friend of a friend type, and never existed.
Then one friday they went to get some money out of the cashpoint and the card was swallowed. Then a man appears and says 'that happened to me, try putting the pin in again.'
Stupid friend does, nothing happens. reports card missing on MONDAY!! suprise suprise the account had been emptied.
When they told me i felt like slapping them. At least they dont send anymore scare e-mails.

If this happens stand at the cashpoint and get you mobile and report card stolen there and then or at least ASAP. and I mean ASAP

[jpchenet]

I had a quite amazing experience this weekend. I went to Belgium via France. Here's the first bit:

Arrive Citie de Europe, buy some perfume in Citie de Europe on Tesco credit card
Go into Carrefour, spend a load of dosh on same card.
Drive along to Adinkerke, go to cheap fag shop. Use same CC for £350 worth of fags. Shop assistant said she needs to call Brussels to authorise, have I got another one?

Fumble about and start transaction with new card. About to sign the bill when my phone rings. It's my daughter, back in the UK. "Tesco have just been on the phone, could I call them back immediately".

So, still mid transaction, I call them. They are "just checking" about two earlier transactions AND the transaction I'm still in the middle of!

As soon as I'd confirmed the transactions, they OK'd the card for use abroad for the rest of the weekend.

I am gobsmacked by their alertness. On previous occassions they have stopped the card when I've forgotten to tell them I'd be abroad (Sebring last year, for one!).

I guess they are losing so much money on fraud that they have to be on the ball. For which I am grateful.

I had the same thing happen at Le Mans this year with my Egg card. It was an automated service that called me on my mobile just after my second large transaction at Carrefour.

Good to know that the banks are putting some of todays available technology to a good use.

[BigH]

Someone wants to have a word with VISA then!

Over the last couple of weeks I drew out $5000 cash (500 a day, max allowed)  from an ATM.

A few days later, back in the UK, it wouldn't allow me to purchase four cans of Bass down at the off license.... You've got to hand it to the security boys at VISA, absolutely nothing gets past them. Well, apart from record fraud, obviously. In my minds eye, I can see them as the sort of guys who turn up for work having forgot to put their trousers on.

If it had been 5 litres of rough cider it had stopped me buying, I'd have probably looked at it differently.
H

[Andy Zarse]

I'm not usually one to comment upon the personal choices we all make in how we spend our hard earned money. But really H, unless I've misunderstood you, spending 500 bucks a day on Bass? Well, it's just plain wrong. That sort of money would buy hours of time in the Harper's Fisting Parlour.

[Dave H]

That sort of money would buy hours of time in the Harper's Fisting Parlour.

Not only that, but you only pee out of your arse for a couple of days when you've been at the F Parlour.....

Guys, I've been in London for the last week and totally forgot that there is a large permanent grey umbrella over England.  I thought Indiana was bad this time of year but I keep seeing Warlocks on the streets here.  f**k*n' scary.

No wonder people will sit in a field for a week in France for a bit of Vitamin D.

[jpchenet]

That sort of money would buy hours of time in the Harper's Fisting Parlour.

Not only that, but you only pee out of your arse for a couple of days when you've been at the F Parlour.....

Guys, I've been in London for the last week and totally forgot that there is a large permanent grey umbrella over England.  I thought Indiana was bad this time of year but I keep seeing Warlocks on the streets here.  f**ckin' scary.

No wonder people will sit in a field for a week in France for a bit of Vitamin D.

You mean to say you've been here for a week and you haven't trued to get together for a beer?  Shame on you!!!!

How long are you here for Dave??

[Dave H]

You mean to say you've been here for a week and you haven't trued to get together for a beer?  Shame on you!!!!

How long are you here for Dave??

Leave Thursday but have US clients in tow the whole time so not really a step-out option on this trip.  Took them to see Chelsea stuff Newcastle at the weekend which was interesting.  Couple of them were big soccer players in the US so this gave me some serious browny points.  Would have liked to see Newcastle muster up some sort of result as my Toffees are holding on by the short and curlies right now.

dh