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Visa Debit Card scammed

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    #32
    LOTTOWINNER
    Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭LOTTOWINNER


    My wife was told that it "should" take 2 weeks from when the bank fraud department receives the letter detailing the fraudulent transactions, but they don't actually contact you, the advise was keep checking your balance everyday until the money is returned.
    It would be nice if they explained how it happened and is there anything that could be done in the future to prevent it, at this stage we have checked my wife's bank statement and the only on line transactions are from reputable companies, so we are still confused as to how the fraud was done.


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    #33
    Colonialboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭Colonialboy


    They got rid of all the clever people in Banking IT and out sourced it .
    Thats why theres all these loopholes in banking IT systems.
    Blame Bill Gates ... and thats not a joke.


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    #34
    LOTTOWINNER
    Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭LOTTOWINNER


    Colonialboy wrote: »
    They got rid of all the clever people in Banking IT and out sourced it .
    Thats why theres all these loopholes in banking IT systems.
    Blame Bill Gates ... and thats not a joke.

    This is the "business" in New York where the transactions took place! I am being serious! So do you think that Bill Gates was in there last week running up my wife's debit card?:confused:

    http://splash-nyc.com/


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    #35
    LOTTOWINNER
    Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭LOTTOWINNER


    All monies have been returned to my wife's account, 3 days from when the bank received the letter detailing the bogus transactions, if we only knew how it happened we might be able to prevent it in the future, I'm probably wrong but I think the reason the banks don't give out details of how this sort of thing happens is because then everyone would see how piss poor their on line security is!

    Thanks for the comments people and hopefully it wouldn't happen again.


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    #36
    Big Bag of Chips
    Administrators Posts: 14,027 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    I'm glad it got sorted quickly for you. Yeah, we never found out. We were questioning ourselves for ages after.. were we careless at a bank machine/POS? Was it an online transaction that wasn't secure? Then when we heard about the Getaway Breaks security breach we wondered was it from that. Although ours was months before that came out, himself thought it was possible the breach happened months before, and was only being discovered at that stage? We'll never know.

    Very annoying, and upsetting when it happens though.


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