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Scammer’s Revenge

Previous visitors to this site may well be aware of my foray into Nigerian Scammer Baiting, which led to all sorts of dinosaur related hilarity.

Well… the scammers have got their revenge. When I last logged onto my online Lloyds TSB bank account the latest entry was this:

Scammers

Some grubby little oik in Ghana had withdrawn 100 Cedi’s from my account. Quite how they got my account information remains unclear - I can only assume it was from some random takeaway or restaurant I had given my details to. The money lost only added up to a little over £50, but still: no laughing matter.

Anyway, I phoned up my bank and they confirmed there had been fraudulent activity, cancelled my card and refunded the money to my account. No biggie. What I did find interesting, however, was the statistics given to me by the lady at the bank I spoke to.

50 cedis

She said that she would get, on average, 6 calls a day from people who had experienced almost the exact same circumstances. As there were 1,000 people working in the call centre, this makes the sums of money involved phenomenal - a rough estimate of £109,500,000 (based on an average fraudulent transaction of £50 (apparently sums greater than that are usually picked up by the bank’s fraud prevention measures) and the call centre being open 365 days a year).

The lady I spoke to confirmed my suspicions that they would probably not even pursue whoever had randomly gotten hold of my card details, as the expenditure required would far outweigh any potential recompense the bank may receive. As it stands, the bank just has to refund any money stolen and simply take the loss on the chin.

Of course, Lloyds TSB’s pre-tax profit in 2007 was £4 billion, so I don’t feel overly sorry for them.

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5 Responses to “Scammer’s Revenge”

Jim Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Well I think you can consider that your life time donation to Lenny Henry and Comic relief.
Bloody chubby chasing b*stard! Apparently for the premier lodge adverts he *starred* in, they had to make all the props bigger, as in real life the slums they make you stay in, have the same cubic capacity as John Barrowmans rectum. Although that apparently is quite spacious.
Phil Saunders Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I’m trying to think of any adverts that I hate more than Lenny Henry’s Premier Lodge debacle… oh yeah, I know: I bet Richard Hammond has never shopped at Morrison’s in his life. And then there’s Davina McCall. Her shrill cry of ‘all your greys Mum!’ will haunt me to my grave.
JC Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
How do you know Richard Hammond has never shopped at Morrison’s? After all he has suffered some serious head trauma.
Jim Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Davina, of course your mother has grey hair. SHe’s been dead for two months!!
Stupid b*tch. Next she’ll be complaining that her mother has maggots in her vagina!
Phil Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Sick, dude.

Scammer’s Revenge

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