Current scams

Le Touriste. It is most unusual that your new bank card details have been given to a third party. Make sure you are definitely speaking to your bank on their fraud line number via their secure web site and discuss what has happened with them.

Do you think the Le Touriste post might be a wind up ??? £600 iphone for £1.50, and then company returns his £1.50 but then somebody is scamming him for 47 quid, but good luck with the Ombudsman Le Touriste if your post is for real 

I don't know Rufs, but sadly I have seen things happen to people and prevention is the better route. 

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No, my post is definitely not a “wind up”.  I was annoyed with myself for falling for what I believed to be still a Tesco website.  And when you see some of the competition prizes that appear in genuine ads, the iPhone 11 “prize” is not unusual.  The possible threat to my account was fortunately minimised by my own methods of doing any transactions on line.

I keep a separate current account which I only use for on line dealings. This normally has only about £30 in credit. When I intend to make a purchase I simply move the money from my main account to this one, then make my purchase. So a debit of £47.99 would not have been successful despite VISA being so careless.

When I make my complaint to VISA and say I wish to take the matter to the Ombudsman, VISA must reply and, if I am still not satisfied, they must refer the matter to the Ombudsman and VISA will be charged £550 for this.  VISA have 8 weeks to reply to me before the Ombudsman gets involved.  I imagine this fixed “fine” is a method of encouraging companies to sort things out satisfactorily - and fast!

My 90 year old Mother-in-law has been caught twice by the ‘you will be charged £47 on (date). To stop this payment press 1’.

Unfortunately she has mild dementia and our warnings the last time she did this (and was charged £5 for the call) were forgotten. At least it’s only another £5 but it’s so darned annoying.

She won’t give up her bank card but we have hidden it so she can’t give out details and contacted her bank who have put a ‘flag’ on her card so it can’t be used for E purchases. You take what precautions you can and hope for the best but I would like to string up the perpetrators by a very tender part of their bodies.

As did thousands of Amazon customers who selected free postage only to discover they’d subscribed to Amazon Prime at £79 per year!