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Even on the phone you only need basic information like postcode and DOB. Bit shocking really.
I might be smug if I'd managed that, too.Originally Posted by directhex
Let's see. Write an article for a newspaper. Send invoice for £2000.
Elapsed time = an hour or two, net gain = Two grand.
Someone sets up a DD. £500 removed from bank. Net gain £1500.
Complain to bank, change account details and probably get money refunded as it wasn't authorised. Net gain back at £2000. Elapsed time = 10 minutes. Maybe another 10 to write confirming letter to bank. Say, 20 minutes.
Then, write another article for newspaper about the scam. Send another invoice for £2000. Elapsed time = another hour or two.
Net gain £4000 ..... with elapsed time about 4.5 hours, and someone's done half the work for you by doing the scam. Yup, I think I'd be smug about it.
* Note : the £2000/article is a spurious figure. Obviously, I've no idea what his rates are .... but it wouldn't surprise me, any more than £1000 or £5000 per article would.
santa claus (08-01-2008)
Oh that Clarkson.. such a douche!!
Can't help but find the guy funny though.
Credit where credit is due (no pun intended). He did, quite literally, put his money where his mouth is! A valuable lesson, once bitten twice shy springs to mind.
He is a national treasure though.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
'least he's not national treasurer.
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How do you prove it wasnt you? Companies dont really seem to require your authorisation for it, just your details.AND - even if an evil genius sets up a Direct Debit on your account, and gives £500 to Hug A Salad Dodger PLC, are you telling me you still have to pay it, once its clear that SOMEONE ELSE WHO IS NOT YOU AND HAS NO RIGHT OF ANY KIND TO SET UP A DIRECT DEBIT ON YOUR ACCOUNT?
You don't just say - erm, no, that wasn't me, must be a scam - I'll have my £500 back please.
Whats going on? Why is everything so ****, and why are cretins in charge of this sort of thing?
Happened to me before... always pay my internet bills on my bank using the payment slip ntl sends me home, yet one fine day i found ntl established a DD in my bank account.
Bank told me anyrequest for a DD will be accepted if the given bank details correspond to mine. Furthermore when i asked them to stop any future DDs to be established without my consent they told me not possible as DDs are completely external to them.
So i was forced to contact NTL and politely ask () them not to establish any other DDs in the future. Also asked how they got my account details in the first place, they told me ''you must have given them to us sir no other way could we obtain them''
i would surely remember providing my bank details to such a painful customer service. I wonder if they got them from the slips i paid in my bank?
So the moral of the story: Keep your money under the mattress its safer.
does this happen all the time in uk? i.e. the system fails so that everyone can set up direct debits for other people?
The more people come up with stories,the more I'm now worried! I don't know about other banks, but HSBC issue switch cards that their 18 digit number is basically your account number and sort code. Means anyone who you've made an online payment to using this card can now setup a DD without your consent and with virtually no comeback to bank about it???
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This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!
So, how do I go about setting up a spurious charity....?
I just noticed that the OPs sig is a link to Help for Heroes which Clarkson is a patron of. Apparantly his patronage has given it very wide media coverage. The top gear lot also went out to Afghanistan to entertain the troops too.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
Don't worry Lucio, why will people waste time with a small direct debit scam, its not as if the security around plenty of asset management firms is wofully pathetic, and has the added advantage of having a few more million. Anyone who keeps vast sums of cash in a regular HSBC current account DESERVES to loose it.
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People keep doing the most stupid things though... i live in a student accommodation and every month i receive about 5 bank letters from previous occupiers. If you think about it they contain the address the name and all their account details… all is missing is their DOB and how hard should it be to find that?
Plus you really don’t want all that information in the hands of royal mail. When I moved in I gathered letters from the previous occupiers just in case they came around for mail, after a while I returned the remaining ones to royal mail.
About 2 months ago the police came to my house and told me a bag, containing letters all addressed to my house, was found dumped in a street not very far. They were all to previous occupiers and contained private data such as bank details… Told the police I didn’t throw them and they were most certainly the ones I returned to the post office.
After all this i have asked my bank to stop posting my monthly drafts to me, can check them online anyway.
Good Lord. My sides.
To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.
Serves 'im right
Well done to the clever chappie that aided diabetes research and proved the smart-arse wrong at the same time.
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