[Scottish] Fraudulent Internet use of my debit card

Chris Binnie chris at belowzero.biz
Thu Jul 17 10:36:35 BST 2008


John Gordon Ollason wrote:
> I suppose it's inevitable, but my bank statement came back this month 
> and somebody had spent £3000 of my money purchasing stuff on my debit 
> card using the Internet.
>
> In the last 6 months the only other purchase I made on the Internet 
> was to Amazon UK.
>
> What is the likelihood that I have picked up malicious javascript or 
> whatever?

Hi John,

I'd be inclined to keep a close eye on the cards stored in your Amazon 
account and also the bricks and mortar places you use your card, as 
William mentioned.

Don't forget compromised cash line machines too, which are apparently in 
abundance down south in particular.

Chris

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