Just wondering. I’m not going to crap on the retailer by naming as it *could* be coincidence, but after not using a card for months, I bought something yesterday from a big online bike shop & hey presto, three attempted payments to Dell & some perfume place were made later in the day. I’ve informed the retailer about it of course. I usually pay via Paypal but this was a rare occasion when I didn’t.

No not recently and not to an online bike shop but got scammed by my local petrol station a few years back. Cheeky Monkeys, good job it was my expenses card, took ages to sort it though.

Not recently but I had a very bad experience a few years ago. I reported a transaction that clearly was not mine and was told by the credit card company that it was a “chip and pin” transaction and therefore must be valid. Knowing it wasn’t, and by now knowing the address for the fraudulent transaction was in Scotland, I asked the credit card company for a list of places I used my card “in person” on said date, knowing full well I couldn’t be in both a Glasgow suburb and a Cheshire town within an hour of each other. They then quietly dropped the whole thing.

No not recently and not to an online bike shop but got scammed by my local petrol station a few years back.

I believe that was an old favourite back in the days of the paper slip too. They’d simply put in two copies before swiping and signing giving them one open copy to do as they wanted.
The little tinkers.

Yep thrice this year. Once after using a large online cycle retailer, once in a shell garage and once on a card that had never been used in fact was still in the envelope in a drawer in my living room.

The last one was amusing as a payment went through as i was on the phone to them.

Me: Nope never used that card
Them: Ah, don’t suppose you’ve just bought 8 dollars worth of fuel in New York? Didn’t think. Invesigation underway.

If the site is still breached and not fixed then avoid by all means as they have no clue on security. The few quids that you save you might as well spend it somewhere else to avoid all those hassle. I wouldn’t touch them with bargepole …

We were done last week. Funnily enough they bought a del PC and some vouchers.
pedalhead can you tell me which bike retailer it was? I need to make an order and don’t want to have to go through the whole thing again. I would rather play safe.

from last time roper, advise you use paypal.

Wife’s card today. Transaction in high street chemist chain followed 2 hrs later by an atempted fraud in the USA. Card company spotted it and cancelled the card.

can you tell me which bike retailer it was?

CRC would be my guess. They had what I believe was a rogue employee a few months back, far as I know they’ve sorted it out now.

Well its either or Wiggle. Wiggle had two spells didn’t they with loads of people complaining on here.

Mrs Busydog’s Debit card suddenly had a charge show up from China a month ago.
I alerted the bank and they immediately closed the card account. Happened about 5 years ago, but the charges were local. Most likely the account info was ripped of by someone when the card was used, i.e. a restaurant, store, etc. It really is a pain to have to go through the new card process, especially if is a card used by several companies for automatic/recurring payments.

Had a card cloned recently. Cant really put it to any transaction really, some times they sit on cloned cards a while so as not to draw suspicion.

My new York one was spotted because. The thief went for the signing option. Apparently this is so rare now they check each one.

Not recently but a few years ago I got stung to the tune of £2k after buying fuel at a major supplier. Bank rang with the news instantly but got my cash back in no time. Pretty easy to prove I hadn’t been in Srilanka the day before! Bought my wife’s Christmas present over the phone the other day and had the transaction refused, then got a call from the bank yesterday to check my last purchases… Nice to see them being cautious even if the odd purchase is problematic.

My new York one was spotted because. The thief went for the signing option. Apparently this is so rare now they check each one.

Strange they viewed as suspicious, the ask you to sign a slip regularly still in the USA.