Yesterday evening I received an automated call from Barclaycard telling me there was a chance of fraud on my MasterCard. But first I had to answer correctly multiple questions about who I was, date of birth etc until they came to the bit about, do I confirm if I made the following transactions.
There was a long list of transaction for £ 385.00 for ladies shoes and also £375.00 for some books and so on, about £ 1000.00 worth of stuff it sounded like.
So finally after about nine minutes of answering YES or NO by pressing the mobile phone keys I got to receive the opportunity to speak to YES ' a person' yes a real human being, this time from deepest BOMBAY. Now here I got even more suspicious as perhaps it was this chap just checking to see if I mind him using my card but NO it was the genuine article and so our cards are now cut up waiting for new ones. Here begs the question of how that 'someone' obtained our card details. Interestingly the date of use was Tuesday and Wednesday this week when neither Jennifer or I went near a shop or even used a credit card.
Oh the wonders of modern technology with the chip and pin which would solve the chance of fraud.
In the mean time if you had to deal with an internet problem this is most appropriate
