Someone fraudulently spent £750 on my card. But I have their mobile number.....

Akagi · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:04

What should I do with it?

I have contacted the retailers and my bank and its being sorted, and I've cancelled delivery of the items he ordered... But he cleverly put his mobile number on one of the orders. Hmm...

Kenai · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:06

As many call back services as you can find, with amusing names

Feek · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:07

Please don't post the number here. I've removed it.

Akagi · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:08

Feek said:
Please don't post the number here. I've removed it.

Sorry

StoutMeister · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:09

You have their phone number...pull a Mitnick on their ass!

Maccy · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:09

Heh heh I can see the number in the edit history...

Yaayuh! · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:10

It could be someone else's number surely? An innocent bystander.

Akagi · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:11

Kenai said:
As many call back services as you can find, with amusing names

Open to recommendations

StoutMeister said:
You have their phone number...pull a Mitnick on their ass!

A what what?

Rossi~ said:
It could be someone else's number surely? An innocent bystander.

I suppose it could be... But I assume they put their actual phone number for delivery purposes etc. I have their address too, and can see that there has been a failed attempt to deliver prior to me cancelling the delivery.

Maccy said:
Heh heh I can see the number in the edit history...

Give it a ring and find out if they ordered a tablet.

V_R · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:14

Happy 29,000th post.

What did they buy? I'd be asking myself how they got my info.

Akagi · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:16

V_R said:
Happy 29,000th post.

What did they buy? I'd be asking myself how they got my info.

Lol thanks. A specced up Android tablet on my Google Store account. I assume it will have something to do with my previous thread, where I cleverly infected my PC and all my browsers subsequently stopped working. Because I had 2FA set up on my Google account, but would have been logged in at the time.

"Google Pixel Slate (8th Gen Intel® Core™ m3 Processor 8GB RAM 64GB Storage) Midnight Blue"

glenimp617 · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:25

I thought he was stupid putting his mobile number down, but to buy the m3 version of a pixel slate is a whole new kind of stupid.

Diddums · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:28

Text message:

“Hi, I got your number from (insert most common woman’s name here), she said to keep it quiet but I’ve seen you and i wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t at least reach out, are you single?”

Go from there. A bit of mind *******

peterwalkley · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:30

Start a PPI claim with one of those online jobbies and give that number. Those leeches NEVER stop calling

Feek · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:33

Block your number and call and say you're trying to deliver a tablet, can they confirm the address.

Diddums · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:33

peterwalkley said:
Start a PPI claim with one of those online jobbies and give that number. Those leeches NEVER stop calling

Ooooh this one! Also injury lawyers, LOTS of injury lawyers.

Akagi · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:34

I texted them asking if they are expecting a delivery from the Google Store and made it all flowery saying that we attempted delivery yesterday etc. To see if anyone replies.

Just trying to find out if it is his or her number before doing anything with it...

If it is him I'll say I left it in their safe place, and then have some fun with that. Yes I left it in the brown bin. No I'm sure it was brown. Wait you do live at number 5 right? Oh number 3! Sorry its in number 5's bin. They say they haven't got a brown bin? What road name is it again? Oh sorry, I took it to - suchandsuch- Road and left it in their brown bin. You should go and check. What do you mean it's not in there?

doodah · 10 Apr 2019 at 12:52

Damn you Feek being all 'legal' and 'moral'

!!!

Come on OcUK, how can we have fun (aka give Acme an awesome suggestion to do).

afraser2k · 10 Apr 2019 at 13:03

Report to police for fraud? Might be involved in more than one case.

Akagi · 10 Apr 2019 at 13:07

All I'll end up with is a crime reference number on a piece of paper which I will lose in about 6 months time having heard nothing.

Freddie1980 · 10 Apr 2019 at 13:30

afraser2k said:
Report to police for fraud? Might be involved in more than one case.

It's highly unlikely they will do anything with it, investigating fraud is a low priority for most police forces these days.

If the credit card is stolen the chances are the mobile number is stolen as well but given how dumb criminals can be at times I guess there's a small chance the number is the preparatory.