O/T Wallet Stolen - Help? Please?

[TheJasperCo]

Hi all, basically I was on my way to the Amex earlier and, to cut a long story short, my wallet was literally picked from my pocket in the underpass on Trafalgar Street next to the city station. The Police have done what they can, I've also cancelled my bank cards, but my next big worry is ID fraud as my NI card and driving licence were both inside as well. Can anyone just advise what I should do to reduce the risk of getting defrauded? Obviously apply for a new licence and NI card, but do I need to do anything else besides that? Thanks in advance.

P.S. If I can give one piece of advice I've learned from this, it's never be complacent - KEEP YOUR VALUABLES HIDDEN!!

 

[dougdeep]

Don't say you had it in your back pocket.

 

[TheJasperCo]

^ Side pocket of my chinos. Quite a bulky thing, but it was hanging out slightly (the wallet that is), making it quite an obvious target say, for anyone from the nearby pub...or homeless people who frequent that part of the city. It was facing the road as well, meaning people were more likely to have noticed it.

 

[mistahclarke]

If you are really worried about ID fraud sign up to Experian and check monthly. People don't pickpocket for ID fraud so I wouldn't stress too much, it's normally just an opportunist for quick cash..

To be honest though, my guess is the wallet minus cash but everything else will be in a bin on Trafalgar street. Or in Ernest's pocket.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Fastest growing country in Europe,THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY WAS APPROACHED 4 TIMES ON TUESDAY AROUND THE STATION BY JUNKIE BEGGAR

 

[TheJasperCo]

Just an update if anyone's interested, some kind person found my wallet in Queen's Road and handed it in to the police station. There are some good people out there after all

 

[Leighgull]

Fastest growing country in Europe,THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY WAS APPROACHED 4 TIMES ON TUESDAY AROUND THE STATION BY JUNKIE BEGGAR

You shouldn't have been dealing drugs round there then.

 

[Tory Boy]

Just an update if anyone's interested, some kind person found my wallet in Queen's Road and handed it in to the police station. There are some good people out there after all

Delighted for you.

TB

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Just an update if anyone's interested, some kind person found my wallet in Queen's Road and handed it in to the police station. There are some good people out there after all

It FELL out?

 

[TheJasperCo]

It FELL out?

Must have done, because it had twenty quid still in the note pouch. Weird though, because I didn't lose it on Queens Road, so no idea how it came to be found there. One of the mysteries of life...

And to think I was going to have to negotiate its release from Ernest's greedy mitts.

 

[empire]

awaits stupid threads

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Must have done, because it had twenty quid still in the note pouch. Weird though, because I didn't lose it on Queens Road, so no idea how it came to be found there. One of the mysteries of life...

And to think I was going to have to negotiate its release from Ernest's greedy mitts.

Glad you got it back mate...even in the 50s it went on...I was helping my sister who was ill from the train to a taxi...my wallet was gone by the time we got to the taxi....no no, my sister did'nt nick it!!...

 

[cloud]

My purse got pickpocketed when I was in Italy.

It turned up 6 months later at Brighton Poly - my student card was in there. Everything was still there, including my Barclaycard - they just took the cash.

 

[hitony]

I once lost my wallet .....panicked as soon as I got back from the pub and rang the credit card and bank people, cancelled everything, my wife, who had picked me up from the pub was repeatedly saying to me.....go and check the car you may have dropped it, I ignored her, satisfied I had cancelled everything and probably lost a few quid I went to bed....woke up and went to my car in the morning to find it on the floor in the passenger side

 

[Leighgull]

My purse got pickpocketed when I was in Italy.

It turned up 6 months later at Brighton Poly - my student card was in there. Everything was still there, including my Barclaycard - they just took the cash.

Hang on...your purse was stolen in ITALY and turned up at Brighton Poly? Eh?

 

[Surf's Up]

I had my man bag stolen from the back of a chair in Carluccios and about six weeks later thieves came into my room while I was asleep in the friggin Holiday Inn and nicked my wallet of the top of the chest of drawers!!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Weird though, because I didn't lose it on Queens Road, so no idea how it came to be found there. One of the mysteries of life...

Kids playing football with the wallet or the road-sweeper couldn't be arsed to pick it up ?

 

[Meade's Ball]

Today i was thinking back over a blunderous time of mine about 7 years back when i'd not picked up the money from a cashpoint that i'd requested, just walking off with my card and not realising the £20 was still in its slot when i was at the paydesk of a Tesco some 15 minutes later. I went back outside after paying for my uncapital-lettered bounty and of course the cash was no longer there. I presumed someone had seen it and just taken it, which was mostly fair enough really, i thought. Finders keepers, and all that. This afternoon i checked my mail and there was a letter from my bank saying that Tesco had just reported that i had not received the £20 i intended to take sometime between 2005 and 2011 and i was to get it back in my account by the end of this month. With £3.28 of interest! What a blinking bonus.
I suppose Tesco have probably asked everyone in an expanding circle from the Crouch End epicentre of the mishap and finally worked their way down to me now some 4 miles away, the investigation all in the hands of their singular detective who can now move onto that left behind Spam Chopped Pork and Ham located tillside in around 2008.

 

[Socialist Sid]

^ Side pocket of my chinos. Quite a bulky thing, but it was hanging out slightly (the wallet that is), making it quite an obvious target say, for anyone from the nearby pub...or homeless people who frequent that part of the city. It was facing the road as well, meaning people were more likely to have noticed it.

Just an update if anyone's interested, some kind person found my wallet in Queen's Road and handed it in to the police station. There are some good people out there after all

You never know. it may have been one those awful homeless people that found it and handed it in.

J hope they kept your copy of the Daily Mail to keep warm that night though.

 

[countryman]

Today i was thinking back over a blunderous time of mine about 7 years back when i'd not picked up the money from a cashpoint that i'd requested, just walking off with my card and not realising the £20 was still in its slot when i was at the paydesk of a Tesco some 15 minutes later. I went back outside after paying for my uncapital-lettered bounty and of course the cash was no longer there. I presumed someone had seen it and just taken it, which was mostly fair enough really, i thought. Finders keepers, and all that. This afternoon i checked my mail and there was a letter from my bank saying that Tesco had just reported that i had not received the £20 i intended to take sometime between 2005 and 2011 and i was to get it back in my account by the end of this month. With £3.28 of interest! What a blinking bonus.
I suppose Tesco have probably asked everyone in an expanding circle from the Crouch End epicentre of the mishap and finally worked their way down to me now some 4 miles away, the investigation all in the hands of their singular detective who can now move onto that left behind Spam Chopped Pork and Ham located tillside in around 2008.

A few years ago my dad was queuing behind someone at a cash point and the woman walk away with her money. Apparently it was a lot. Luckily for her, my dad is an honest person so he called her back.