Barclaycard fraudulent use – again – inside job ?

[Pointsamateur]

For the second time in several years, my wife’s Barclaycard has been used for fraudulent transactions; luckily spotted by the bank and most blocked, but one for £5 test got through.
We only ever use the card via Curve; the physical card has sat in my office since it arrived over 2 years ago, other than for the first transactions I did in person at our local supermarket, to enable chip and pin.
So, it seems to me that it must be an inside job, as the card details are not used anywhere else, online, or in her google wallet.

Thought I’d share the information, to see if there are other opinions, and any similar experiences.

I wish organisations were able to work together to stop this. Barclaycard could talk to Amazon to investigate names and addresses linked to the fraudulent use at Amazon. But they won’t, quoting GDPR all over the place no doubt.

[Points Hound]

Pointsamateur wrote:

For the second time in several years, my wife’s Barclaycard has been used for fraudulent transactions; luckily spotted by the bank and most blocked, but one for £5 test got through.
We only ever use the card via Curve; the physical card has sat in my office since it arrived over 2 years ago, other than for the first transactions I did in person at our local supermarket, to enable chip and pin.
So, it seems to me that it must be an inside job, as the card details are not used anywhere else, online, or in her google wallet.

Thought I’d share the information, to see if there are other opinions, and any similar experiences.

I wish organisations were able to work together to stop this. Barclaycard could talk to Amazon to investigate names and addresses linked to the fraudulent use at Amazon. But they won’t, quoting GDPR all over the place no doubt.

I’ve had two lots of fraudulent transactions on my BC Avios + card in the last 12 months, one lot of Facebook advertising transactions and more recently, Playstation. Same each time, a few 1p tests before a larger transaction attempt, £699 form Playstation. To be fair to BC their systems detected it both times and stopped / refunded everything.

It’s the faff and having to get new cards sent out that is the most frustrating bit for me.