credit/debit card fraud

skinson
skinson Posts: 362
edited December 2009 in The bottom bracket
Soon after i joined in june there was some talk of debit/credit fraud at ribble can anyone remember it?
regards
dave

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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    I seem to remember that it was both very brief and sorted fairly conclusively.

    Be careful with a post like that as it strays dangerously into libelous areas.
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  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    skinson wrote:
    Soon after i joined in june there was some talk of debit/credit fraud at ribble can anyone remember it?
    regards
    dave

    Why?
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  • skinson
    skinson Posts: 362
    Be careful with a post like that as it strays dangerously into libelous areas.

    How do you make that out then? It's a question not a statement, you can't have a libellous question!!!

    Libel.
    is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image.

    dave
  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    skinson wrote:
    Be careful with a post like that as it strays dangerously into libelous areas.

    How do you make that out then? It's a question not a statement, you can't have a libellous question!!!

    Libel.
    is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image.

    dave

    Without wishing to be pedantic, I think it would be possibly to libel someone by asking a deliberately misleading statement.


    I don't think that is the case here though
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  • cjw
    cjw Posts: 1,889
    skinson wrote:
    Soon after i joined in june there was some talk of debit/credit fraud at ribble can anyone remember it?
    regards
    dave

    I remember seeing a number of those related to various online retailers (I recall Wiggle getting picked on a few times). I have purchased a lot from CRC, Wiggle and others and have never had a problem - never used Ribble TBH.

    Dave,

    You are usually very pro Ribble, has something happened to raise your suspision? Should add the feeling I got from the posts was (without knowing really) that it would have been coincidental to the purchases and not the retailers / staff being fraudulent... only my speculation though. On-line retailers have to be so careful.
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  • mpd62
    mpd62 Posts: 71
    I have just been done for around £5000 on a card which I usally use for paying gas/elec bills but have just recently bought a fair bit from ribble on this card, I will get my money back and still use Ribble(paypal if poss) but it happens, I have my suspicion but you never know so its up to the banks(fraud dept) to sort out
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    tbh if you are using a credit card , don't you have limited liability?
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    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
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    Than never to have loved at all."

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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    I was a regular, loyal Ribble customer since 1985. However I'm not using them again until they get paypal in place, as I have had my cards compromised three times uncannily soon after making a purchase from them. This is no proof, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Ribble have paypal sorted and working now - I used paypal with them on Monday.
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    redddraggon wrote:
    Ribble have paypal sorted and working now - I used paypal with them on Monday.

    Pity I have no more money at the moment :wink:
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  • Tempestas
    Tempestas Posts: 486
    The common link is we all ride bikes so tend to shop online, so the first suspicion is that it must be a bike shop we used recently. Cash machines, petrol stations, key loggers or even the card company are more likely sources of the fraud, since most retailers have stringent security measures in place.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    There was a few peeps on an american forum last year that all had credit card frauds after they used PBK and Ribble...

    Can't prove owt though, could be just coincidence.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    I'm fascinated with this idea of using PayPal...

    Why do you think PayPal is secure ?

    If you pay PayPal, your card is debited immediately, whether the company has the goods in stock or not. If you pay by card, normally the merchant only debits on despatch of the goods.

    If you pay PayPal, you have no section 75 comeback, i.e. can't dispute the transaction with your credit card company and get your money back if you don't get the goods, etc.
    And having read the issues people have had going through PayPal's dispute resolution...

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