Word of warning of cloning

[5cupa]

just a quick word of warning to everyone. My switch card got cloned when I paid for my petrol in a tesco's petrol station over christmas and then used for just under £1000

So i suggest you all keep a good eye on your balances as cloning is not something that just happens at cash points etc.

[CrapshoT]

That stinks m8.I hope you can get some sort of compen for a loss that large.Lately I have been wary of cash machines because of this cloning lark.Thats the only place I use my card.My wife is another story tho.She pays for just about evrything with her card.We don't drive so petrol stations aren't a worry.Hope you get this sorted out quick m8.

[Nemeliza]

This concerns me about using a debit card. With a credit card i suppose u can do a charge back on any putchases which you didnt make.

Chip and PIN is helpful but i disagree with the payment PIN number being the same as the ATM/Cashcard PIN.

Thanks for the heads up, hope your bank sorted it all out.

[Agent]

how do you know it ea Tesco mate ?

[piggeh]

Heh - the advantages of only having a cash card I guess, is that it cant happen to me

(shame I cant buy online, get cashback, do anything anyone else can, etc. though)

[5cupa]

how do you know it ea Tesco mate ?

because around 50 - 100 people in my town had it done and the clones spent the money all in the same places.

so much so that the banks caught onto the fact and started declining large payments in the area.. everyone who had it done had bought petrol at this petrol station.

if the cloners had spread them around the country they probably would have had more chance of getting away with alot more....and people who arnt aware yet and dont have statements till the end of the month are proabably still getting stolen from. but i check my online statement everyday.

[Kumagoro]

You get scammed a lot dont you... so what did happen with ebay then?

[5cupa]

i dont get scammed i loose money to fraud. i lost the £100 as paypal refunded

[Rave]

TBH this is the bank's problem. They can't make you pay for people cloning your card if you've just handed it over to pay in a reputable place like a Tescos. If the banks can't devise a system to make sure that people can't use fake cards, then it's the bank's fault.

Hopefully chip-and-pin will sort this problem to a large extent. Still, I'm amazed that they were able to spend so much money that the banks caught on and stopped large payments; couldn't any of the shop staff in your area spot that the cards were fake? I caught three in my time in retail, at £50 reward each they were a nice little earner!

Rich :¬)

[Agent]

Hopefully chip-and-pin will sort this problem to a large extent.

I think it could aggravate the situation more in some cases.
There is one major flaw with chip + pin: how do you know that the system that your punching your numbers in is even linked to the bank in anyway?
Heck, I could knock up a keypad that records what numbers were pressed on it.

What makes it bad is that there is so many models of the chip and pin handset, you can’t tell just by looking at one. How easy would it be to put some circuitry in there that records every pin entered? few meg of flash ram would store thousands of numbers.
Just wait for a customer to come up with a small purchase amount, pull the “cloned” chip and pin device out, print off a face receipt and your done.
Okay, so its not going to happen in the big high-street chains, but your local corner-shop might not think twice.

You wouldnt even need to goto all that trouble. A well placed security camera would do the job good enough.

[Rave]

If you're a crooked retailer looking to benefit from chip-and-pin, then you're basically prepared to sacrifice the payment you would have received for goods or services rendered by substituting a fake chip-and-pin machine for one that can actually collect payment. Would it be fairly easy to hack together a fake chip and pin machine that could recover both the the card number and the pin and store it for later retrieval? Sure. Would it be easy to get away with more than 3 or 4 frauds as a result, without the location of the dodgy machine being found out? Unlikely.

Rich :¬)

[Proplus]

I think it could aggravate the situation more in some cases.
There is one major flaw with chip + pin: how do you know that the system that your punching your numbers in is even linked to the bank in anyway?
Heck, I could knock up a keypad that records what numbers were pressed on it.

What makes it bad is that there is so many models of the chip and pin handset, you can’t tell just by looking at one. How easy would it be to put some circuitry in there that records every pin entered? few meg of flash ram would store thousands of numbers.
Just wait for a customer to come up with a small purchase amount, pull the “cloned” chip and pin device out, print off a face receipt and your done.
Okay, so its not going to happen in the big high-street chains, but your local corner-shop might not think twice.

You wouldnt even need to goto all that trouble. A well placed security camera would do the job good enough.

This is similar to what happened last year at a HSBC bank ATM in Cardiff Bay. Some Eastern European underground group installed a fake facia onto the ATM, so that any card that was put in, it read all its details and recorded the PIN the person entered.

[ERU]

Goodluck to gettig it back mate :/

[iMc]

I thought Chip n pin was a good idea until I went shopping the other day and had to use it in almost every shop I paid via card. Then I realised Agents fears with the fact that it could be linked to anywhere.

A different security measure needs to be thought of because I can see this new method causing a lot of trouble in the future.

[Nemeliza]

If you're a crooked retailer looking to benefit from chip-and-pin, then you're basically prepared to sacrifice the payment you would have received for goods or services rendered by substituting a fake chip-and-pin machine for one that can actually collect payment.

Whats stopping a retailer from modifying a perfectly working one, or making/buying one that simlay does both ?

[jimborae]

It would be helpful if you could post the location of Tesco's branch to stop other's from becoming victims too.

If the criminal employees have got to that branch there's a very high likely hood that they will be operating in other petrol stations & outlets in the area.