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    £1000 lighter by 7.15am

    Well it's not been a good start to the day, i went to the cashpoint in the village at 7.10am to get some dosh out only to find the bloody thing wouldn't give my card back, i could see it stuck as it was coming out of the machine, so after a bit of fiddling with another card to try and jiggle it out and not getting anywhere i decided to leg it back to the house which is about 30 seconds away round the corner to get a knife. On my return a couple of mins later i found the cashpoint showing a error screen, and quite obviously the card input bit radically altered.

    uh oh, i thought, and called up HSBC straight away, as they were putting a stop to my card they told me 3 transactions of £500, £300 & £200 had been withdrawn from a cashpoint round the corner at the local supermarket. So as i'm on the phone to them i'm legging it round the corner to see if i can catch them in the act, as it was literally a minute or 2 ago. Unfortunately they'd buggered off by the time i got there.

    Fortunately they had not covered their faces when they withdrew the money from the other cashpoint so they've got some excellent shots of them.

    HSBC have already refunded the £1000

    but the little pikey bastards have had a good morning making £1040!!(they got the £40 that hadn't yet popped out due to my card being stuck)

    I'm usually pretty astute but they proper had my kecks down with this one!

    Apparently they've had 4 incidents of this in the past week!

    Basically they had fitted another metal device over the card slot which had a razor blade in it which pivots so basically it allows the card to go it but then flips up and stops it coming out. Crafty bastards!! They must have had a little pin hole camera aswell to video my pin input!!

    #2
    Sorry to hear that. Shariah does have it's good points.
    ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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      #3
      Sorry about your loss. Just out of interest how good was this thing used to cover the card hole? Must have been pretty convincing if you tried to get your card out and didn't spot it?
      'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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        #4
        It might be worth taking a photo with your phone if you find your card gets 'stuck'.
        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #5
          ...ooh nasty but thx for that, will watch out for that.

          You need to be reminded from time to time that thieves do this.

          I used to check the card reader in the bank before putting the card in but have recently got blasé about it. At least I cover my fingers routinely when entering the pin, so I shouldn't get caught on that particular trick.
          I'm alright Jack

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            #6
            At least HSBC sorted you out.

            I don't really do cash It's a miracle if I even have enough in my purse for the car park in the mornings!!
            Bazza gets caught
            Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

            CUK University Challenge Champions 2010

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              #7
              I too was a £1000 lighter by 7am today. I left my wallet out of the safe last night - Mrs BP was at it....

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                #8
                I thought all cards were restricted to 300 per day

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ketchup View Post
                  I thought all cards were restricted to 300 per day
                  Mine does £500 but they do have a limit.
                  What happens in General, stays in General.
                  You know what they say about assumptions!

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                    #10
                    £1000 lighter by 7.15am

                    The camera is often a iPod nano with camera stuck to the top of the machine.

                    There's been a few cases with exactly that mo locally
                    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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