ID Thieves

[Maz]

We had our debit card skimmed at an Indian restaurant in Holcombe Brook, near Bury. A week later just before Christmas, £1700 disappeared from our account in a couple of days. A bogus card had been made in the name of a Mrs Baig who drove around Greater Manchester helping herself to about 55 transactions for Asda and Tesco shopping with small cashbacks, saris, indian sweets, restaurant meals, hotel rooms, petrol and so on. We gave the statement to the Police pointing out that here was a detailed minute-by-minute itinerary of ths woman's life over 24 hours and all they had to do was go and look at a few CCTV records at the right times and they'd see her. Were they interested? Were they feck.

Stood behing an Asian bloke at a petrol station last week who was holding a brand new shiny card, which he tried to use to buy various small items like cigerettes and sweets. It was refused twice so the cashier just handed it to him and the bloke disappeared without his goods. The cashier smiled at me and said something to the effect of "that one won't work then, will it?

My secretary's son got his card skimmed by a card reader on a cash machine inside an Asian newsagents last month.

A pattern sems to be emerging here....

Um, we're not all like that.

 

[yorkshiregoth]

In London, the dodgy petrol stations seem to be run by Sri Lankan's whereas the dodgy cash machine skimming devices seem to be run by Romanians.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

That concurs with my experience.
Made an debit card purchace over the phone last year. Goods arrived, no problem. About 2 weeks later, SWMBO noticed a £200+ transaction on the bank, queried it, and someone had brought perfumes online with our card details.
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How did you manage to prove your innocence.

 

[Over The Hill]

Is it not that there are simply lots of asians running retaurants (with good food we go to), running petrol stations (low paid jobs most would turn their nose up at pre credit crunch) and running newsagents shops (working very hard and long hours and putting their all on the line to set up and run their own business).

I expect next RR's ticket will not work on the London Underground - and who's falut will that be??

 

[rich p]

We had our debit card skimmed at an Indian restaurant in Holcombe Brook, near Bury. A week later just before Christmas, £1700 disappeared from our account in a couple of days. A bogus card had been made in the name of a Mrs Baig who drove around Greater Manchester helping herself to about 55 transactions for Asda and Tesco shopping with small cashbacks, saris, indian sweets, restaurant meals, hotel rooms, petrol and so on. We gave the statement to the Police pointing out that here was a detailed minute-by-minute itinerary of ths woman's life over 24 hours and all they had to do was go and look at a few CCTV records at the right times and they'd see her. Were they interested? Were they feck.

Stood behing an Asian bloke at a petrol station last week who was holding a brand new shiny card, which he tried to use to buy various small items like cigerettes and sweets. It was refused twice so the cashier just handed it to him and the bloke disappeared without his goods. The cashier smiled at me and said something to the effect of "that one won't work then, will it?

My secretary's son got his card skimmed by a card reader on a cash machine inside an Asian newsagents last month.

A pattern sems to be emerging here....

It must be only northern Asians that are thieves because I've been to lots of restaurants down here and a large % of our small shops are Asian owned yet I've never been striped up. Astonishing!

If only we were all white in Britain, we'd have no crime.

 

[asterix]

In London, the dodgy petrol stations seem to be run by Sri Lankan's whereas the dodgy cash machine skimming devices seem to be run by Romanians.

..and the City is run by Anglo-Saxons? I know who has got most of my money..

 

[Eat MY Dust]

The guys that chased me certainly weren't asian.

 

[JamesAC]

A pattern sems to be emerging here....

err .. my card (along with half the neighbourhood's) was skimmed at our local Somerfields. They didn't care -- but my bank (Barclays) did - they phoned me at work one day, confirmed it was me, then asked if I was in Canada making a $1000 transaction!! I wasn't, so they killed the transaction and my card.