Posts by Jason Dean

I'm glad Halifax decided to tell their customers...

This is the first I've heard of this. No one from Halifax has actually informed me that this is happening. I take it I'm supposed to guess after they reject the payment as to why this is happening.

I have had fraud done with my card in the past, they way they seemed to test the card was to buy some music tracks from a place in Brazil and then a few days later started going for the big stuff from all over the world. I found out what happened when I checked my on-line account. Nothing had arrived in my recent transactions by all my money had gone out of my account. This was before chip and pin (And a local garage I frequented was shut down around 8 months after due to credit card irregularity's).

I can't see how blocking transactions to certain companies (Unless the company were actually responsible for the card details theft) is going to help. Surly they would just use the details to buy something else.

It sounds like a bean counters reaction to a problem. "Hmm, most of the fraud is done on these types of transactions, so lets just block them, that will solve the problem, and to save even more money, lets not tell them, let them find out for their selves."

Jas