Missing Money Part 2
He went on to tell me how this problem is quite prolific in Asia and one of the biggest markets for stolen card details at present is Austraila. Now I am not 100% sure how true that is, but he is the man in the know and I have no reason to not trust him.
Missing Money
20 June 2008
Crazy Johns SOUTH YARRA. 2,516.00AUD at 2.07
£1212.80
Now I have never been
to Australia, although in the last Month I have
been in India, Thailand, India, the UK, and India
again, and have used my bank card in all three
countries. I always try to take as much care as
possible, and have a dedicated credit card I use
abroad to avoid such occurances, but it looks like
I have come unstuck this time.
I have phoned my bank, who have suspended my bank
card and are going to issue new ones, but it means
I am going to have some fun getting access to money
for a while. The real pain is I have to wait until
Monday before I can speak to the fraud department
and start the process to reclaim the money.
In the meantime I have contacted the company
concerned (http://www.crazyjohns.com.au/)
and spoken via there online helpd to a BenN. He
was very helpful and promised to send all the
details to his fraud department.
Why did I contact the company concerned? Well the
thing about theives is there generally not as
clever as they think they are and often try to use
the same company again and again. More over as this
company deals in Mobile phones that is even more
likely as they are easyily distrabuted and often in
demand. The theif can offer them below market rate
(Well they didn’t cost him anything) and the
client, while suspecting its too good to be true,
often can’t resist the opportunity to get there
hands on the latest phone at a reduced price.