Skimming

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:50 pm

Didn´t know the word for this kind of manipulation before but and I just lost money through skimming. Evil or Very Mad

It´s unbelievable how fast the scammer work. They usally need to do the transaction from overseas because it will not work in my country.
More information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud

registered · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:38 am

My wife used to work at a bank within their credit fraud department. You would be amazed at what goes on. Sad

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:03 am

I don´t believe anymore it was skimming.
I´ ve never been in Spain and don´t use Miles&More but it looks like this manipulation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8366204.stm

http://www.thelocal.de/money/20091116-23315.html

There is a security hole somewhere.

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:42 am

Once credit card details have been skimmed the details are then sold on and cloned cards can be produced.

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:06 pm

You are right. Also its not possible to protect everything because there is a large criminal industry operating worldwide.
If you use your card online, and the most need this, you can´t be sure everything goes well.
No, I don´t speak about pishing because this is an other issue with online banking. Evil or Very Mad

Quote:

Frank-Christian Pauli, a banking expert at the Federal Association of Consumer Groups, said there was a “criminal industry” that collected credit card data and used it for fraudulent transactions.

“We can’t protect ourselves against it,” he said.

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:23 pm

I got a full refund within a week. Smile