Anyone ever been burgled/mugged/conned?

[Questions]

Ah - but does she love and cherish you? If so - two out of three ain't bad....

Yes she does Brodian but then again she is a James Blunt fan so that really tips things back the other way again.

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

I had quite a good banking scam tried on me recently. I got a phone call that said they came from my bank saying there had been unusual activity on my account.

This is a scam, I thought, and as they talked to me I went and looked at my online banking app. On it there was unusual activity, from an hour earlier, with failed transactions I knew nothing about. The caller said we've noticed this activity - describing it - and there it was on my account. I did wonder, for about 30 seconds, if this was a genuine call.

It wasn't. What the attempted scammers had done was get access to an old cancelled card of mine, which presumably also had my phone number in that database file. They then did tried some transactions on the old card, then waited a short time and phoned me up and told me about them. The idea was to get my trust in them - and then I would expect to try and make me take actions involving me giving them money.

They didn't get my trust, so nothing happened, but it was a good scam. The transactions combined with the call made me at first think it might be genuine. If it happens again I will change my phone number, but so far it hasn't.

Hmm, sounds like your details must be on the dark Web. Suggest you go here.

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If your old card number and new one are very similar ask the bank for another new one which is different. It's not uncommon when you get a new card for only the last 4 digits to change and it can be worked out. There are also many places that will not bother authorising small amounts online so you could get a load of <£20 items hit your account

 

[timbha]

The Police are frankly useless, little wonder they get their budgets slashed, they never do anything Except retire in their 40's on fat pensions.

Retire in their 40’s on a fat pension? Surprising potential recruits aren’t queuing up for a job

 

[Sorrel]

That is worrying. How did you realise that it was a scam?

They started asking "what other bank accounts do you have, as we need to contact them". No bank would do that.

 

[Sorrel]

Hmm, sounds like your details must be on the dark Web. Suggest you go here.

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

haveibeenpwned.com

If your old card number and new one are very similar ask the bank for another new one which is different. It's not uncommon when you get a new card for only the last 4 digits to change and it can be worked out. There are also many places that will not bother authorising small amounts online so you could get a load of <£20 items hit your account

Yes, the attempted transactions were all for small amounts.

 

[Algernon]

Suggest you go here.

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

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Looks like a nice way to harvest plenty of email addresses for sale.

 

[Marlton and Hove Albion]

Got mugged at knifepoint when I was doing my paper round. Got burgled several times as well.

That's what happens if you live in Moulsecoomb - it's no wonder that I got out.

Burgled twice in Moulsecoomb.

 

[HangletonGull]

Conned in Egypt almost causing an international incident, attempted mugging in lewes a few years ago kid on a bike tried to grab my bag pushed him off his bike, and attempted mugging at Man City this season , neither where successful

 

[Cotton Socks]

In early July I made a online purchase that I knew was highly likely to be 'to good to be true' I was assuming fake but I wasn't really bothered if it did the job, so I used my credit card so I could do a chargeback if necessary. I used my other email address so prevent my main one being spammed as well. I was sent a completely different item, that if was genuine, would have cost about £20k. I contacted the company for a refund and they said I could have a refund of a third of the cost & I could keep the item. I explained that as nice as the item was I did not want the item but wanted a full refund and if they didn't refund the money I'd contact the card company. They didn't refund so I got the card company to. All sorted and the wrong item was given to someone who asked for it, it appears that it is a good quality fake, although obviously fake due to the price. I'm not putting what the items were because they were so different that it was comical and people have told others & then I may as well put my real name.
About a month later I was contacted by my card company saying there has been suspicious activity on my account, that was left on my voicemail. I called the bank back via the number on the back of my card and indeed my card had tried to be used for very small transactions but had been blocked, I immediately thought it was due to the transaction on the dodgy website, however this was not the case. This had started in May with things like Costa and DoorDash (American Uber type thing) and was on 4 different phones. I hadn't even loaded it onto my phone. I was questioned on whether I'd given anyone codes that had been sent to my phone and I had to point out that I wasn't sent a code for the transaction I'd had to do a chargeback on that they hadn't blocked. They said my details were being sold on the net. They shut down all my online banking, made me set a 'special' password that I would have to use if I wanted to talk to them, then had to wait for a new card, new pin number & when I'd received that and activated my card they'd reactivate my online banking. It was all very odd.
I decided to contact my main bank that I have my debit and a credit card with and sure enough, my credit card had had small transactions blocked that also started in May and they hadn't bothered to contact me either, they just sent out a new card. I could not work out how they had both my card details & not my debit card which is on my phone and I use all the time but both my credit cards (the main bank one I hadn't used for about a year). They're not stored on any website to use for future payments, they've not been used in the same places. The only connection between the 2 cards is the balance transfer I did in April from my main account one to the one that 1st called me & I'd used on the dodgy website. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd think that the bank have had a data breach & they've just forgotten to mention it.
Had my phone nicked once, they called China & gave me a £75 bill that Vodafone wouldn't refund, they wouldn't even give me the number that had been called due to 'data protection'.

 

[zefarelly]

Retire in their 40’s on a fat pension? Surprising potential recruits aren’t queuing up for a job

I know a few who did/have.

 

[shingle]

Never anything violent fortunately, but I have been pickpocketed loads of times, Pamplona, Rome (several times) and Ethiopia (loads of times, its endemic there) Plus, got my expensive camera nicked in Peru several years back.

 

[Vicar!]

Late one night in Rio. Large African girl, approached me with an offer of er entertainment. I politely declined and she punched me hard in the nuts. Threw me to the ground and attempted to get my body belt. Failed. We then picked each other up and wished each other good night. She had of course cleaned out my pockets of loose change, and probably earned herself enough for a beer.

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

Looks like a nice way to harvest plenty of email addresses for sale.

Actually email addresses are only the start of it. Many sites take your full name, address, phone number and date of birth. Some even exposed bank card numbers. After my initial post I went back to check my emails again (last time about 4 years ago) and one of my closed emails there had been all the above details taken in a leak affecting 700 million people.!

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

I was 20 years ago contacted by my Bank for a suspicious purchase on my credit card in Shoreham . Those were the days when most people had a land line and they left a message on my answer machine for me to contact them urgently. Turns out it was an engagement ring I had just purchased for my still lovely wife

 

[Robinjakarta]

Never anything violent fortunately, but I have been pickpocketed loads of times, Pamplona, Rome (several times) and Ethiopia (loads of times, its endemic there) Plus, got my expensive camera nicked in Peru several years back.

Same here except different places, the worst being Delhi and Saigon partly because both included my passport. Not the greatest places in the world for that to happen.

 

[Justice]

FFS! was this recent / where abouts?
I've just fitted a sensor in the back of mine that rings my phone everytime the doors are opened, bit intermittent and bit annoying..

No not recent 2011. I honestly felt like jacking it all in after that and work in Tesco or something, of course I didn’t as the phone kept ringing and eventually got the kit back up to scratch.

 

[Justice]

Never anything violent fortunately, but I have been pickpocketed loads of times, Pamplona, Rome (several times) and Ethiopia (loads of times, its endemic there) Plus, got my expensive camera nicked in Peru several years back.

Surely you learn after the first pick pocket ordeal

 

[East London Exile]

We were conned by a taxi driver on our first visit to Lisbon in the 90's. We picked up the taxi at the regular taxi rank at the airport. When we arrived at the hotel the charge on the taxi meter was about 3 times the amount that was suggested in the guidebooks (pre internet travel guides!). We paid up and only when we had reached the hotel room and mentioned it to each other we realised that on arrival at the hotel he opened the glove box to reveal the taxi meter with the inflated price! He obviously had not reset it after his previous drop off.

Ever since then we look for the meter in the taxi when we get in or agree a price in advance.

 

[shingle]

Surely you learn after the first pick pocket ordeal

Not in Ethiopia unfortunately. There are just so many ways to 'get done'. Ethiopian pickpockets are masters of all forms and I have been left speechless with admiration at some of the tricks employed and they don't all follow the traditional boring distraction techniques.

 

[Cotton Socks]

Actually email addresses are only the start of it. Many sites take your full name, address, phone number and date of birth. Some even exposed bank card numbers. After my initial post I went back to check my emails again (last time about 4 years ago) and one of my closed emails there had been all the above details taken in a leak affecting 700 million people.!

Did the same thing and my old email add has been leaked by Deezer, the breach included ... "Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Spoken languages, Usernames". I'd already unsubscribed by the time that was leaked though.