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Parking Ticket/atm Scam
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My wife parked her car outside the Co-op. She came out and a bloke approached her saying she had just got a parking ticket, but if she put her credit card into the adjacent ATM and pressed a certain button (within 5 minutes) it would cancel the ticket. (Eh?)
Anyway, she was rushed, a bit flustered, so put her card in the ATM and the guy came up next to her and said 'press the button there with your left hand and with your right hand enter your PIN'... at which stage my partner started to cotton on! Manager of the Co-op then came out, the bloke (and his mate), wandered off, and the manager confirmed that they were up to no good.
Moral: be careful of 'good Samaritans', particularly around ATM machines...
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Anyway, she was rushed, a bit flustered, so put her card in the ATM and the guy came up next to her and said 'press the button there with your left hand and with your right hand enter your PIN'... at which stage my partner started to cotton on! Manager of the Co-op then came out, the bloke (and his mate), wandered off, and the manager confirmed that they were up to no good.
Moral: be careful of 'good Samaritans', particularly around ATM machines...
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First guy was Asian-English, respectable-looking apparently, fairly well-spoken. His less talkative mate was black English.
Partner is usually wise to scams, but these two were obviously clever - she seemed in a rush (she was), she had parked questionably, she is getting on (70), etc., so a well-chosen mark. Luckily she cottoned-on very quickly, and we phoned CPP (Card Protection Plan) immediately to get the card cancelled - believe it or not, it's quicker than phoning the card company (a Newday one), where you have to go through endless keying in and voice activation before you get anywhere.
First guy was Asian-English, respectable-looking apparently, fairly well-spoken. His less talkative mate was black English.
Partner is usually wise to scams, but these two were obviously clever - she seemed in a rush (she was), she had parked questionably, she is getting on (70), etc., so a well-chosen mark. Luckily she cottoned-on very quickly, and we phoned CPP (Card Protection Plan) immediately to get the card cancelled - believe it or not, it's quicker than phoning the card company (a Newday one), where you have to go through endless keying in and voice activation before you get anywhere.
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