Has anyone else experienced card fraud recently.
In the last month, both myself and my girlfriend have had a number of bugus transactions appear on our accounts: beneficial bank card account and bank account respectively.
In my case there are 3 transactions that I have noticed to date - all through a local restaurant. Amounts are in the region of £50 all with .50 p tagged on I assume "to make them look believable". Im out by about £150 but the restaurant concerned have no record of the transactions. They say it's something to do with a fraud being committed by the streamline provider that they use to process their card transactions. They also say it's not an isolated incident, there are about 10 other customers complaining so far. They have kindly put through a credit to my card account. I am obviously also taking this up with the bank too.
My girlfriend has a worse problem amounting to hundreds of pounds. In her case she doesn't even recognise the companies that the transactions purport to come from. Again the amounts are in the region of £50 each. The bank are being singularly unhelpful and recommended that the matter is referred to the police. Who knows how long it could take to get the money back...
It's kind of looking to me like an inside job rather than simple skimming - as if someone has access to the records of posted transactions and is managing to electronically submit thier own transactions.
Scary thought!!