Had my Amex skimmed this month *AT a EH3 PETROL STATION*

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:31 pm

Was it that long haired South American dude?

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:35 pm

robin wrote:best approach is actually to enter the wrong three digits first, then press the cancel button and then enter the right four digits

I tried this in Borders today, but the cancel button cancelled the entire transaction and the girl had to start it all over again for me and I had to remove and re-insert my card.

Should I have pressed the "clear" button rather than the "cancel" button??

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:35 pm

Cant remember as normally fill up about 6am

Called the local rozzer shop to let them know and "Hi I had my card skimmed and thought I would let you know as well as my ccard agency, I am in EH3", "Oh the petrol station one...".

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:07 pm

Tennants in the London flat left the cold water feed on to the boiler. ~£400 worth of emeergency call outs today to top it all off. Massive barny with S last night too. Just gets better.

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:38 pm

sorry to hear that dude. Pull a sicky and go somewhere nice for the day

robin · Post by **robin** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:04 am

dezzy wrote:
robin wrote:best approach is actually to enter the wrong three digits first, then press the cancel button and then enter the right four digits
I tried this in Borders today, but the cancel button cancelled the entire transaction and the girl had to start it all over again for me and I had to remove and re-insert my card. Should I have pressed the "clear" button rather than the "cancel" button??

I guess so

You can also just enter the wrong PIN and then the right PIN, but if you keep doing that you may run into trouble.

I once entered the wrong PIN on my card on about 1000 transactions back to back (removing and starting a new transaction each time) before the online authorisation place went "err, no, you can't do that anymore".

Robin

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:08 pm

oh no. i've used this place. will have to go back through statements. any idea of dates it was happening over.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:37 pm

Jan 07.

mrbennybennett · Post by **mrbennybennett** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:33 pm

Doh bought petrol there on Saturday!!

Better keep an eye on my statements!!!

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:09 pm

More press and a photo to jog ppls memory.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?i ... bad=356430

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:27 pm

Just checked when I got defrauded - June 06.

I've most likely been there since Jan 07 as my girlfriends flat is just around the corner from there. Wonder if I'm in for a double helping of fraud fun?

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:49 pm

I think i might go back to using that quaint cash stuff

You know the stuff we had before all this plastic stuff turned up to help us stop being robbed

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:23 pm

thinfourth wrote:I think i might go back to using that quaint cash stuff

You know the stuff we had before all this plastic stuff turned up to help us stop being robbed

I was thinking the same myself!

Cashless society...Pah! Only means you don't know when you are being robbed... IMHO.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:44 pm

Went to the garage tonight to ask for the Managers details as wanted to write to him for compensation, nothing ventured nothing gained and all that.

"Sorry he is in Dubai"
"I just had 2 grand taken off me there."
"Ah"

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:55 pm

Scottish Elises

Had my Amex skimmed this month AT a EH3 PETROL STATION