Eek - time to scrutinize your credit card statements if you've recently bought something from Chain Reaction:
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"UK cyclists hit by fraud after online purchase at website"
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Posted 14 years ago #
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I wondered what TBC was on about...
Posted 14 years ago # -
Which I suppose is why one is always recommended to use a credit card rather than a debit card, for online purchasing.
Nothing obvious on the CRC website about it, though.
Posted 14 years ago # -
I thought this was going to be about Wiggle...
Posted 14 years ago # -
I thought this was going to be about Wiggle...
Is there something we should all know about Wiggle? I used it the other week!
My shiny new pedals came from PBK (apologies to LBSs, but I was after backwards delta-compatible ones that were hard to source)
Posted 14 years ago # -
Paypal is one of reducing this type of risk. Also some sites have bank operated security requiring passwords, eg mastercard secure
Posted 14 years ago # -
@kaputnik: A couple of years back there were some very long threads on a number of cycling forums about credit card fraud and Wiggle, but I haven't seen one recently.
Apparently Chain Reaction Cycles is now 'working around the clock' in inquiry to find out what happened.
Posted 14 years ago # -
I use PayPal where possible to avoid the potential pain of card fraud.
Of course, it opens up the possibility of PayPal fraud instead.
Posted 14 years ago # -
@kim - thanks.
I always use paypal on squiggle. But like Dave says perhaps just exposes me to paypal fraud. However that's never happened (yet).
Posted 14 years ago # -
Something similar happened with Lush, the cosmetics company, earlier this year I believe.
Bit scary! There seems to be so much card fraud around at the moment in various forms, I worry it's only a matter of time until I'm caught out too, though I've been lucky so far.
Posted 14 years ago # -
I was defrauded last year, as it happens, in just the same way (a £30 mobile top-up).
You'd think it would be just as easy for the mobile company to revoke the credit, making it pointless - but I guess they just use it ASAP.
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