An Account of an act of Credit Card Fraud The Year -- 2007 |
The email exchange with warehouse.co.uk: From: [name withheld] Dear Sirs, During the month of May 2007, your company was involved in the fraudulent credit card transactions listed below, for which Greater Manchester Police issued the Force-Wide Incident Number 758 / 18th May. A report on the fraud will be posted on the Romiley Literary Circle website (which is hosted by Farrago & Farrago, www.farrago2.co.uk) at the end of this month. It would be helpful if you could supply the following information about the fraudulent transactions made using the VISA account of [name withheld]: 1. The nature of the transation - chip & pin / phone / internet We are offering you an opportunity to post a statement of mitigation for your part in these transactions if you so wish. Thank you for your co-operation (if you offer it.) Regards, [name withheld], The Fraudulent transactions were:
www.farrago2.co.uk - the ULTIMATE publishing experience Received no response (possibly because my email company was having spammer problems and other companies were rejecting their emails WITHOUT BLOODY TELLING LEGITIMATE SENDERS WHAT THEY WERE DOING) so sent the same message again on 14/06/2007 Warehouse Internet Customer Services wrote: Hi Thank you for your email. Due to data protection we are unable to provide further details on the information you have provided. If you are the card holder if you can provide us with some further details we may be able to look into this further. Kind regards [name withheld] From: [name withheld] Greetings, [name witheld]! My name is: [name withheld] The VISA Account abused is in my name and had the number: I trust this information will be sufficient; I am reluctant to supply more unless it is vitally necessary. If you hear hollow laughter as you read this, it's only my response to the words 'data protection', having found that mine wasn't protected all that well. Regards, [name withheld]. From: Warehouse Internet Customer Services <helpme@warehouse.co.uk> Hi [name withheld], Thank you for getting back to me. After some searching I have managed to find the orders that were placed using your visa card. I have in fact turned up 4 orders!! I've listed them all below for you and they were sent to the same address. The data protection is quite ironic, we ,like to verify it is the card holder then we are more then happy to provide you with any information we have. Transactions: Deliver address: Delivery name: J Perry They provided full billing address and card details in order for the transactions to be authorised. The goods they ordered were various items of women's clothing. We do check for suspicious orders as best we can but unfortunately yours slipped through the net. If you need any further information I'll be happy to try to help. Kind regards [name withheld] On-line Customer Service Team From: [name withheld] Thanks for your information, which raises more questions than it answers. Such as why the criminal was buying pizzas and Chinese meals in Bristol but getting your goods sent to London. Unless he's part of a nationwide criminal operation. I suspect these are questions which will never be answered as both the banks and the police seem to be showing little interest in doing anything about credit card criminals. Regards, [name withheld], |
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