From: "tim \(moved to sweden\)" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Times: Fraud victims left in the lurch by banks
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:56:30 +0100


"Tim"  wrote in message 
news:dqg34v$8e2$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> "Mike Scott" wrote
>> Scenario: Bad Guy Shopkeeper skims C&P card's stripe
>> and records the PIN.  He sells the info to his mates in
>> Bangkok or wherever who clones a striped  card and vists
>> local ATMs. You have a problem. The banks says it's a C&P
>> card so their system must be secure, therefore it's your fault.
>
> You don't have to accept that.
>
> Can you cite even just a single case, where the bank
> has *not* backed-down after the cardholder went
> to "top-man" / newspaper / Financial Ombudsman?

No, but I suspect that there are (will be) lots of people
who back down at the first refusal.

tim