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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Darrell Osborne

Anyone else had their bank contact them about attempted dodgy transactions on their account at Dominos?

Happened to me today. Also happened to a family member and some people they know recently. Suggests a common issue with a particular business on GL. Only places that could have skimmed my card recently are a particular off license, a particular coffee shop and a particular drinking establishment.

Anyone else had the same problem? 

It seems the scamsters get the card details, test it works via a Dominos online purchase (for a couple of pence) before trying a larger transaction.

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I have!  They tried the same trick of an online purchase for a couple of pence and then attempted a bigger pizza purchase. 

It was a card I hardly ever use so can easily double check on my statement.  Will investigate. 

My thorough investigations reveal that the card was only used in a supermarket chain in Wood Green.  I rarely use it. 

Yep happened to my partner and sister in law this week too! The only place they both used their card at was a coffee shop ( in Finsbury Park) but they tried to take from my wife’s bank card and Monzo card too which makes me think maybe it was a hand held scanner. They did a dominos order of £23 then also tried a £280 spend on booking.com too. 

My friend had the bank call her re a dodger transaction. They froze her accounts so it was an attempted big one! 

Obviously lots of it going on! 

Someone might be intercepting your chip info with a reader. They might be walking about using a handheld reader or the shop terminals concerned don't realise they have malware on their terminal which is taking your chip info. A rather complicated article explains a fault with chip & pin; https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/13/chip_and_pin_security_flaw...

Yes, I also had this - my bank got in contact last Friday re a 0.01p transaction at Dominos.

However, I would be cautious about relating this to a high street retailer!

In the last few months it has emerged that quite a few on-line companies have had their websites hacked & that a lot of card data may have been gathered.

British Airways are saying 380,000 transactions were affected, and there has been a similar attack on the Ticketmaster site.

e.g. in the BA case:

"Between very specific times and dates (22:58 BST August 21 2018 and 21:45 BST September 5 2018) over a period of two weeks, it appears that the names, addresses, and all bank card details of customer data were stolen"

Given that these attacks use quite a new approach, I would expect that BA & TicketMaster are the tip of the iceberg...

Agree that it's unlikely to be anything to do with a local retailer but do wonder why the perpetrators use Dominos so regularly as their test transaction

Here’s an article about why scammers use Dominos, from a few years ago:

https://www.get.com/blog/2014/12/pizza-becomes-testing-ground-stole...

Interesting but, surely plenty of other apps are just as easy to test on with stolen credit card numbers. Maybe Dominos is actually the dark net :)

Happened to us too! The Dominos transaction went through and they tried lots of others which the bank has blocked. Can you name which off license you're thinking off?

We had this a few months ago - someone spent £183 on our card at Dominos at eight in the morning. Bank refunded it.

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