What can you get in Romford for £937 at 16:40 on a friday?

[Viney]

national and Provinsal used to have your mug shot on the card, and that IMHO is the best way

Originally Posted by Halonic

Unfortunate stuff

Bad luck mate. I hope you get it all sorted with the minimum of fuss!

Originally Posted by Well Oiled

Bad luck mate. Happening all the more often. Some b'stard got my card details. I think from a restaurant in Milton Keynes and two hours later had tried to buy £5K worth of stuff from ebuyer. Luckily they got turned down.

i had £800 dissappear from my bank to ebuyer.com, fortunately the bank sorted it out, but i SH!T myself

This is why I never have any money in my bank account, they can nick any cards they like, won't be able to spean anything

[Red ones]

If you find out what you can get in Romford for £937 on a stolen card, let me know - I'm there tomorrow.

********Theiving ******* Updates*******

Well the transaction from friday afternoon has finally gone through, and the answer to the riddle (What can you get in Romford for £937 at 16:40 on a friday?) is:

Cash, from the Post Office apparently!! £933.24 of cash and £4.50 of cash charge were removed from my account.

The question being, how on earth did they remove that WITHOUT my pin number? (The PIN isn't written down anywhere, hence every so often I forget it and have to get a new one)

Most places can still override the pin, Is the bank going to give you the money back?

[BillyC]

Originally Posted by Viney

national and Provinsal used to have your mug shot on the card, and that IMHO is the best way

This is standard in many European countries... but not in the UK where a poxy 4 digit number will do.

Originally Posted by sharriso74

Most places can still override the pin, Is the bank going to give you the money back?

ok much fun

have phoned helpline/branch/debit card dispute line AND debit card fraud line

Cash should be back in my account in 3 working days

New card is definately in post

My branch has given me a temp. overdraft of £1000 to cover rent/bills/et al

Fraud line are sending out delcaration form to be signed stating "not my fault gov"

Fraud line require Incident number (in post from Romford police yesterday) and will chase up payment.

The cash was taken from a Romford post office in the form of "Travel Cash" on friday. And if I recall correctly the current practise on these things, because the vendor didnt check sufficiently, the vendor is libel for the loss, not the bank or me, so one of the post offices in romford is about to be stung for the best part of a grand.

SO, all in all, two conclusions: Lloyds TSB are excellent and worthy of much praise, and the local Post Offices are staffed by fools, that allow random people to withdraw a grand without checking any details.

Now to get a new drivers license and the lost cash/ipod reclaimed.......

Would be interesting to find out what foreign currency would come up with a round number after coverting from £937.