All users of debit and credit cards please take note and your eyes wide open. I drew some money from a cashcard machine in Salt Rock on Monday - nobody was nearby and nothing ontoward happened. Yesterday morning I got a phone call from ABSA bank enquiring about a payment claim for R2 500 they paid to a claimant from Malaysia based on my debit card particulars. Luckily I had a limit on R2 000 per day on my card and was surprised that the bank actually paid more.
I had no business with anybody from Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and it was fraudulent. I immediately cancelled the debit card on the suggestion of the Bank.
However, later during the day I read in the local paper that a local man used his credit card on Monday to draw money in Ballito and the claimant from Malaysia drew R30 000 from his credit card - same scam.
I can understand it if a card is stolen and cloned - but how can a person do a transaction and nobody sees it from nearby and then use the card particulars to claim money? Incidentally I never ask for a printed slip anyway - so what is going on? I think it is a problem with the computer system of the bank having been somehow "invaded" and that the problem is the fault of the bank - hence my warning to members.
