Welcome back to Sydney
I'm back in Sydney - hurrah! Arrived at about 1AM after a mammoth 13 hour bus trip and went straight out for a drink with the lovely Tara...buckaroo!
Went to get some cash out this morning and realised that my Co-Operative Credit and Debit cards were missing, searched my room and couldn't find them (I wouldn't have taken them out of my wallet anyway). Phoned up Co-Op and they've informed me i'm 990 pound lighter on my credit card and my debit has been suspended due to suspected fraudulent use...joy! So both cards are now suspended. I've reported the fraud to Sydney Police who weren't very helpful; the officer gave me another number to ring who then referred me back to the police. When I spoke to them again she seemed somewhat annoyed that I wasn't immediately aware i'd been the victim of fraud (instead of just the theft of the cards), she seemed to be oblivious to the fact that I was more concerned about being liable to cough up nearly a grand instead of swotting up on law terminology. The upshot of all this is that the fraud squad in the UK will call me next week to discuss how to progress...except they only work UK office hours so they're not going to be able to speak to me, genius. Although it has messed up my plans for the day a bit it's been quite fun, a learning curve anyway.
I'm not sure when the cards were nicked as they've been with me the whole time apart from a couple of times in my room at Byron and when I went diving (but they were locked away). Whoever stole them did a good job as it's not left me out of pocket and I had no idea it had happened. All the transactions have happened today (22nd) so I assume it was quite recently...curioser and curioser.
Went to get some cash out this morning and realised that my Co-Operative Credit and Debit cards were missing, searched my room and couldn't find them (I wouldn't have taken them out of my wallet anyway). Phoned up Co-Op and they've informed me i'm 990 pound lighter on my credit card and my debit has been suspended due to suspected fraudulent use...joy! So both cards are now suspended. I've reported the fraud to Sydney Police who weren't very helpful; the officer gave me another number to ring who then referred me back to the police. When I spoke to them again she seemed somewhat annoyed that I wasn't immediately aware i'd been the victim of fraud (instead of just the theft of the cards), she seemed to be oblivious to the fact that I was more concerned about being liable to cough up nearly a grand instead of swotting up on law terminology. The upshot of all this is that the fraud squad in the UK will call me next week to discuss how to progress...except they only work UK office hours so they're not going to be able to speak to me, genius. Although it has messed up my plans for the day a bit it's been quite fun, a learning curve anyway.
I'm not sure when the cards were nicked as they've been with me the whole time apart from a couple of times in my room at Byron and when I went diving (but they were locked away). Whoever stole them did a good job as it's not left me out of pocket and I had no idea it had happened. All the transactions have happened today (22nd) so I assume it was quite recently...curioser and curioser.
posted by Tom at 14:22
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