Somebody used my ATM to withdraw $500 from me - how is that possible?

[CZroe]

How can the OP know about skimming and NOT know that it usually involves a camera or keypad to capture your PIN as well?

Anyway, my mother had something more strange happen several years ago. A $200+ transaction charged moments after her transaction at the same register. Supposedly, there were items like baby food and diapers in that transaction (certainly not hers).

Now, she had her card, so it wasn't stolen, and it did come after hers, so it wasn't that they ran it twice (she didn't stand there waiting for her card while they rang up over $200 of merchandise). It had to be an electronic glitch or e-fraud (after the fact). They couldn't get the physical receipt from the roll because it was some time before the bank and my mother were aware.

That was a confusing one.

 

[geno]

To the OP. Do you know why this happened to you, it's because you are insufferably stupid. I have never, ever had this happen to me because I am smarter than you.

Evryone likes to bag on the oldsters for their lack of knowledge, but is you young fucks who think you're so fucking smart who get hit with these scams.

"Oh, it could never happen to me because I have a college education and I'm smarter than evryone else".

Yeh, fuck you. I hope you learned your lesson.

lol, are you joking? Old fogies get bagged all the time with scams because they're more trusting than us young whipper-snappers. I worked at a retirement community (62+ so no, not everyone was senile, this was unassisted living) and people's bank accounts were getting emptied out left and right because people were impersonating bank employees over the phone. They'd gladly give out their entire bank account, debit card number, PIN, whatever the caller wanted. They had to hand out flyers, put warnings up on TV, etc, just so people would stop giving people access to their account. So you can shove the rant, gramps, it's not true.