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[jereboam]

My wife had a genuine e-mail from Amazon saying they had detected a fraudulent transaction on her account, and she should expect an item for £400 to appear on her bank statement.  She immediately contacted the bank, cancelled her switch card and took every precaution we could think by way of damage limitation.

We thought this was very helpful of Amazon, and when the debit eventually came through, we contacted them to say "OK, now please give us the money back".  They wouldn't.  They said we should argue it out with the bank, which we did.  The bank gave us the money, then changed their mind and took it away again.  We shouted some more, and eventually got the money back from the bank.  Whether they ever managed to recover it from Amazon, I have no idea.  

And I've still got no idea how Amazon could let someone use my wife's account to change the e-mail and delivery addresses then order £400 worth of goods.  As far as I can see, the only thing my wife did wrong was to select a fairly weak password, but that doesn't explain how the fraudster actually got hold of the account details.

But I'm annoyed with Amazon about telling us they'd detected fraud, and then refusing to compensate us.  Don't shop there any more

[Kevin Wood]

I hate these retailers who decide they're going to store your credit card details, etc. in case you can't be @rsed to type it in next time you order something (of course you're going to shop there again).

Last time I ordered something from them they sent it to my old address despite me having typed in our new address when ordering. So, they validate the credit card transaction against one address and deliver it to another.  

Had to go round and see the new owner of the house (with whom I was hoping not to cross paths again, TBH) and retrieve my books.

I really think credit cards should tighten up their act a little but they're obviously milking so much 29.9% APR interest from their punters that stumping up for a few fraudulent transactions is of no consequence.

Kevin

[mkaminski100]

I am recenty getting ca 8-10 e-mails a day from "GreenTree Warehousing" They have real web site (changind address every few hours), with address, history, photos and history!! It's a fake and these   are getting e-mail adresses from Monster and other job search sites.
Beware!

[Vamps]

I never seem to to get any of these scam things, pop ups, dodgy p***s enlargement/viagra etc (given all that old caper up now anyway), Is this down to ntl netguard? Comes free + i've got one or two other protecting programme thingies installed & running by computer literate friends who pop round & "clean em out" for me every so often.
   I do refresh my paypal after 5 secs as instructed & despite being a computer numpty Am not gullible enough to fall for such scams.

  They obvioiusly know it`s not required!

And I get 40 or 50 a day, into my spam, what does that say.

[waspy]

YES. I've just forwarded it to paypal   Thanx Plomien