John Gordon Ollason wrote:
I suppose it's inevitable, but my bank statement came back this month
and somebody had spent £3000 of my money purchasing stuff on my debit
card using the Internet.
In the last 6 months the only other purchase I made on the Internet was
to Amazon UK.
What is the likelihood that I have picked up malicious javascript or
whatever?
If you've *only* bought stuff from amazon with this card, something is
afoot at amazon. I find both those deductions to be unlikely.
If you've bought stuff with the card in person from shops as well as
buying stuff from amazon (more likely), your card has been skimmed or
cloned, likely by an uberdodgy person behind a till somewhere.
Internet purchasing fraud doesn't necessarily involve you feeding your
card number into a website, just the use of your card number and not by
you; the theft can begin at a bricks and mortar point of sale too.
-n
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