An interview with a card scammer
Several months ago I fell victim to a huge card skimming scam. Ok, it was only £20 that they managed to steal from my card, but still... I was furious at myself more than towards the little fraudsters. I should have known better as I never really trusted those contact-less cards. I was mentioning this incident to an absolute stranger I met in a coffee shop a few weeks ago. We got onto this topic as I overheard him telling the waitress that the card she was trying to tap was not contact-less, “never trust them” he said to her. I looked at him, smiled and interjected that I never liked contact-less cards either as I had been scammed before. We started a conversation, as you do, and mentioned that I was still confused as to how they scammed me. He then went into full details on what he thinks could have occurred. This was becoming interesting and I started to realise that this guy knew a little more than he should, I then had to ask him how he knew all of this? He smiled ba