Justice without court involvment....flames as some poor wretch will probably loose thir job over this

I Can't remember my password

What is your address, DOB, the last purchase you made with the card and your mothers given name.

Oh yes wait, it's on this statement I picked up and the DOB is from a website such as xxxxx with complete Births Mariiges and Deaths up to 1983.

Why I was calling, well I've just moved address, terrible hassle, yes I know, anyway lost the cards.... and the limit. can that be raised whilst i'm on the phone anyway.

Fantastic, see you in hell.

Time and time again we see such utter stupidity allowing the poor and unfortunate public to be ripped off by poor banking practices...

No, wait, who am I kidding....

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

See how you fucking like it! Hey, bank bosses, get your damn act together and start remembering that it's OUR money in those accounts, not yours.

Mines the one with the contents of a HBOS wastepaper basket stuffed into the inside pocket.

It's only a shame his card wasn't skimmed at a rogue ATM.

These fat-cat bankers have utter blind-faith in chip-n-pin. They need to wake up and smell the hot caffeinated beverage.

I'd be laughing too, if it weren't the outfit that I use as my bank!

If they are slack enough to let it happen to him, just how slack are they with my money??

So if the guy takes out 2days' wages that's suspicious activity! So equivalently HBOS would block my account if I take out a malicious-looking 130quid? Pfhwew, lucky I'm not there...

So a true believer in his own banks insecurity of spending one cent in the dollar on security has been found !

as then it'd be fun to think on whether the bank asks him for proof of an up-to-date firewall subscription, or somesuch, as with others apparently. It's also a shame he's likely to have alternative methods of payment, unlike some of us who fall foul of bank errors.

Mine's the one with the banknotes and the fake moustache in the pocket ;)

Dear Mr Bank manager,

Are they going to hassle you to fill in claim forms, give you a receipt for the form then lose it while sending it to India to be processed, re-debit the money without telling you and forget to mention it when you phone in saying your account has been hacked again, making you cut up ANOTHER set of cards JUST as you were about to go shopping, eventually making you give up in disgust and open an account elsewhere????

Not that this has ever happened to ME, you understand.......

Mine the one with the bear traps in every pocket.

Spot on Rob. Modern banking is all about how to skim a profit of someone else's money without ever having any responsibility or duty of care. That is why the system is about to collapse, completely. Sadly it will take your savings and mine down with it.

It might be funny, but think about it, who do you think is going to pay for his lost money?

'That is why the system is about to collapse, completely. Sadly it will take your savings and mine down with it.'

Does that mean my overdraft etc will vanish as well??

This is a classic:-

http://www.articlesandtexticles.co.uk/2007/05/29/mitchell-webb-identity-theft/

And so true.

It's the fact that he has ultimate responsibility for the systems & processes that allowed this to happen, and that his bank's policies make it extremely hard for those affected to get their money back. But of course it'll be easy for him.

I would throw out the term 'irony' if I could be sure I was using the term absolutely 100% correctly (cos you lot would be extremely quick to let me know if not). However, I will throw out this term: 'schadenfreude'

No, it's "hanged, drawn and quartered".

If you're going to be pedantic, it helps to be right. :)

Mine's the one on the hook, in bits with its guts hanging out.

Well, Stephen - hung is the past tense and participle of what you do to game; hanged is the past tense and participle of what used to be done to criminals.

Mine's the one with Fowler in the pocket.

I had to hand over a copy of my passport at a LLoyds TSB last year. Gave my passport for her to photocopy. She came back, looked at the photocopy, decided it wasn't good enough, crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the general direction of the bin. It landed on the floor. I asked for the crumpled ball and my passport back and told them to shove their account. The lessons haven't been learned clearly.

All our institutions are disasters in the waiting like this, it's just the price of such failure is so high at banks. Feck 'em all.