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By codemonkey uk (Fri May 23, 2008 at 11:23:26 AM EST) (all tags)

In which my bank card details got ripped off.

I got a phone call whilst walking to work this morning, telling me that someone had use my card details to make a number of purchases during the night, in America, totalling approximately all of my money.

This is on a card I never use for online transactions, I hardly use it anywhere in fact. I've been wracking my brain all day trying to think of anywhere where I've used my card that wasn't a major retailer using standard chip & pin payments. I shop at Co-op, & Sainsbury's, buy my train ticket at British Rail, pay for food at Nando's about once per month, and occasionally get cash out from the the Gunwarf cash points. After that I'm drawing a blank ... it's not like I'm some kind of dining out different places every night, retail junkie, shopping on eBay kinda guy.

The card has now been de-authorised, and I've had to get a cash advance on my salary to see me though the weekend.

Apparently I'll be able to get the lost funds refunded quite quickly (ie, in time to pay my mortgage on the 10th), but it's still a huge inconvenience.

Crap.

:(

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/pint Yeah. I'm waiting for this to happen. by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #1 Fri May 23, 2008 at 11:29:44 AM EST

Get this: msrat still has her social security number as her driver's license number "because it's so inconvenient to change" (no it isn't).

When that happened to me by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #2 Fri May 23, 2008 at 11:35:31 AM EST

it could have been one of only two places (it was a new card): an indian restaurant and the UMass/Boston registrar's office.

My money is on UMass.
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Number generator by thunderbee (2.00 / 0) #3 Fri May 23, 2008 at 12:03:43 PM EST

There are CC numbers generators around.
Someone may just have generated your number.

: Yes, the math works out in that favor by fluffy (2.00 / 0) #5 Fri May 23, 2008 at 01:38:11 PM EST

There are millions of possible credit card numbers, and only a thousand possible CVV2 numbers and on the order of 48 reasonable expiration dates (and there's probably a very clear statistical bias towards which expiration dates are valid). Plus, once you get a valid credit card number, it's not that hard to iteratively go through all 48000 possible expiration/CVV2 combinations, and that's assuming retailers which use CVV2 - many still don't.
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No way to know by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #4 Fri May 23, 2008 at 01:35:51 PM EST

I've twice had mine stolen with no indication as to anything I did being the cause.
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Atm and skimmer? by bobdole (2.00 / 0) #6 Fri May 23, 2008 at 10:08:18 PM EST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Skimming
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probably by codemonkey uk (2.00 / 0) #7 Sat May 24, 2008 at 04:47:31 PM EST

I'm thinking it might be the Sun Inn pub, where we've been going for lunch after swimming on Sundays. It's the only place I use the card where I sign for it, not use chip+pin.

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: not by flowergrrl (2.00 / 0) #8 Mon May 26, 2008 at 01:21:21 PM EST

that likely to be there tbh (imo)

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