Credit card scam

[Geoff Turner]

Apologies for the previous email, it was meant for those in the UK, and I sent it to the wrong list.
 
However, anyone else who fancies sending me abuse from the USA will get a similar response.

Geoff Turner

[cwhill]

This is a fairly regular scam mail that gets sent around and, in the
past, has fooled local police forces into issuing a warning as well (as
it probably has in this case) and often gets passed from region to
region as gospel truth.
Most of what is says in good practice so there is nothing malicious in
it apart from the fact in never actually happened.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/card-security-code-scam.html

As much of what is said is actually what would happen if you make a
telephone purchase, the reason for sending it out is to make people too
frightened to use their credit cards over the phone.
As I say, the police get these passed to them and then pass on the
information to local groups as it really does seem genuine (as the
police often re-issue it on their own stationery which doesn't help.
Note that the website entry dates from 2006 and it has been around since
before them.

Colin Hill

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[Geoff Turner]

Thanks Colin,
 
I normally check these before sending them on, but as this one came from my local Police force I gave it more credence...
 
At least you didn't send me an abusive email to tell me to stop cluttering up a global mailing list with 'unimportant local issues'.

Regards
Geoff 
 

> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:29:42 +0000
> From: cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk
> To: hurdy...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [HG-new] Credit card scam

[cwhill]

As I said, the police do often fall for it and then send it out on their
official stationery which makes it seem official.
I've had several alerts on this one over the years and it's a mean one
as most of what is in there is "usual practice" but they add the bit
about the firm contacting. That makes it confusing for people when they
try and do genuine business or are asked for their 3 digit security code
and they think that the site is a bogus one.
These are probably the easiest ones to fall for as they contain no
reason for not believing them as they are not asking for details etc.
It's actually very good of you to alert us about things - it may just
have been genuine.

Colin Hill