Attempted fraud on Bank of Ireland credit card


I know that but the chances of guessing the correct card number together with the correct expiry date together with the correct CVV numbers would require billions of attempts. Add in the the fact that one couple using 4 different cards were targeted 4 times in three months makes this statistically impossible. Add in the fact that no payment processor will allow brute force attacks like that. The card details are being compromised in some way. Or else someone really wants a spotify account and doesn't want to admit it to the other person....
 

there is almost certainly at least one retailer that the OP does business with leaking details, whether that retailer are even aware of it is another question. That might not even be an online retailer, plenty of example out there of card details being harvested as POS terminals.

In most cases, the full details of an online transaction should be masked. My point is that it is a doddle for a competent fraudster to work out the 16 digits if they only have partial details and the rest are not that difficult either, especially if you throw a bit of computer power at it. It's no different to the robot calls from Amazon we are probably all plagued with these days. Fraudsters know 99.9% of their efforts fail, they make their living on the fraction that gets through.
 


Thanks Circle. Didn't realise that replacement card could appear on my Google Pay before the physical card arrives in the post. I haven't tried to use the new G-Pay card yet but looks like it's there if I need it. For now I've reverted to cash.
 
The odd thing is that my spouse's card has been compromised the most. It's inactive, hasn't been used online, offline or anywhere else for year, so there's no data trail for fraudsters to get their hands on. This suggests it's just pot luck and random number generation, which was BoI's explanation.
 
Lucius Lamb said:
It's inactive, hasn't been used online, offline or anywhere else for year, so there's no data trail for fraudsters to get their hands on.
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Has it literally never been used? If it was used years ago the data could have been stored and recently compromised.
 
Bear in mind that the breech could have occurred over a year ago and the details have just recently been sold on the dark web as part of a broader cache of numbers
 
I think for this to happen that many times in such a short period of time seems a bit odd to say the least
My thinking would be where is the CC during the day, is it always on or with your spouse??
 

Have either of you ever held a Spotify account?
 
Cervelo said:
I think for this to happen that many times in such a short period of time seems a bit odd to say the least
My thinking would be where is the CC during the day, is it always on or with your spouse??
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Card is buried somewhere in spouse's purse, which thankfully hasn't been robbed or interfered with to our knowledge.
 
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