Alway check your bank statements....

[ummmm]

BF usually just checks the balance but for some reason he went through it last night. We are friendly with the folks at our local shop and shop there daily. He noticed a transaction, for the corner shop, for £397. Luckily as well he keeps all receipts. Took the receipt over and the shop keeper burst out laughing and said sorry....Ginger said the shop keeper was trying to chat up a blonde at the time.

Also....do you really check the machine before you enter the pin? I'm guilty of not doing it.

[joggerjayne]

I may be a bit careless at things like that.

=0/

[another-view]

Only a fool doesn't check their statement and cash machine nowadays. It's so easy to commit electronic fraud, especially with people as lax as yourselves.

[ummmm]

Same as.

The shop's giving his money back when the boss comes in and sees what he really spent. I reckon £39.70.

[ummmm]

AV...I check my statements. That's how I found out my son had been using my card....lol.

[missclaire73]

I had money taken out off my account by a online shopping company and i had not even been online shopping it took ages to get the money back off my bank.

[another-view]

True but you don't check the cash machine.

[redcrx]

i check my bank statements but i wouldnt keep hold of a receipt from the corner shop

[NoMercy]

I used a Banesto cash machine to withdraw 350 euros and I got my receipt, I just didn't get my money... I had a right game trying to convince them that they owed me the money.

[ummmm]

A lesson learned.....

The shop even asked if it made him go overdrawn or anything and they will pay any changes.....very nice.

Red....I don't keep receipts from the corner shop either. Lucky he does...

[ummmm]

Does the 'mark as best answer' work now?

[NoMercy]

That's okay, just send me a cheque....

[Ankou]

i always double check the amount on chip and pin machines.
far too easy to add another digit and turn a few pounds into hundreds.

[another-view]

I hope you also check it for any unusual devices attached to the machine?

[Ankou]

yes, i also check out the waitresses holding it.

[ummmm]

My friend got a top for 45p instead of £45......

[Eve]

It is scary these days! I don't check as much as I should though do tend to look at cash machines in case they look tampered with and use another one if I'm not sure, not easy round here though with the amount of skanky ones lol :)

Another one to watch is being given your card back, I got done by this one once when I went to get cigs and cashback in a supermarket when I was a bit tipsy. He was chatting away and didn't realise until after a few more drinks and a taxi home and getting to the till in a corner shop by me that I didn't have it.

Thank goodness, Barclays had noticed unusual transactions and stopped the card about 3 hours before I even realised it was missing! It still took me a while to get the money they'd taken out before that back though.

I could never prove it was the lad in the shop although I went in there once after when he was on the till and just stood in the long queue looking at him, his reaction said it all, he was sh*tting himself! Didn't say anything to him, just freaked him out a bit then left.

A friend of mine had someone buy Utd tickets through his bank account recently and another friend has his account wiped shortly after using a cash machine.

I also caught out a van hire company who put through a load of extra charges they weren't entitled to. If I hadn't spotted it on the bank statement I'd have been none the wiser.