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Lost Wallet
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Right, so heres the story.
I lost my wallet in a taxi 7 days ago. I asumed i would never get it back, although i had done nothing about it.
On Saturday, i recived a phone call from someone saying they had my wallet and they were going to post it that day. (i offered him the £10 cash inside, but he declined)
After this I didnt cancel my one bank card that was in the wallet, and sat happily waiting for the postman.
Im getting increasingly paranoid something is not right here.
1) why did he ring me, why not post it to the address on the driving licence?
2) The wallet should have arrived by now
3) The phone number he gave me is always switched off
4) Is he appearing nice and ringing me, as a ploy to relax me so i wont be suspicous of bank fraud?
Im proberly just over reacting, or thinking too much about this. what is your perspectif on the situation
I lost my wallet in a taxi 7 days ago. I asumed i would never get it back, although i had done nothing about it.
On Saturday, i recived a phone call from someone saying they had my wallet and they were going to post it that day. (i offered him the £10 cash inside, but he declined)
After this I didnt cancel my one bank card that was in the wallet, and sat happily waiting for the postman.
Im getting increasingly paranoid something is not right here.
1) why did he ring me, why not post it to the address on the driving licence?
2) The wallet should have arrived by now
3) The phone number he gave me is always switched off
4) Is he appearing nice and ringing me, as a ploy to relax me so i wont be suspicous of bank fraud?
Im proberly just over reacting, or thinking too much about this. what is your perspectif on the situation
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Fiend with her legendary nice-ness
What you describe makes it even more suspicious, so I'd say with a 99% certainty that your money is disappearing (if it's not all gone already).
Ive checked my bank account, nothing has happend. I better get to the bank tomorrow then, just incase
It's possible, even likely that someone may be stealing money from her account...
99% certain? :eek2: Unless you're the one with her cards...
oloala, you can phone the banks now and they will cancel the cards and get new ones sent out to you straight away
They'd call to say they'd found it, and stop you worrying, rather than just stick it in the post.
If it went in on Saturday and missed the deadline for that day (which I think is lunchtime) then it get treated like it went in the post on Monday morning, so it's not that late yet.
You havent done this, so if they steal money, dont expect the bank to give it back.
Well they can easily have taken all the numbers off your card, including the number on the back.
Any sensible person would have cancelled the card a fortnight ago.
get to the bank tomorrow. It amuses me, sadly, that you don't really sound concerned. You should have called the bank yesterday as it is so get on the phone to them now!
It doesn't cost anything, you get new cards pretty fast and that way things are safe.
I was stupid enough to have everything in my card. provisional driving licene, & National Insurance card. (incase u are wander wtf i had my NI card) was cause i can't remember my number & my work had asked for it..
i had money init has well but am more worried still about the whole id fraud thing..
Shaz xx
In the past when I have found people's wallets I've always phoned then to let them know as they are probably really worried and they might still be in the immediate area. But I still would cancel the cards, even if the nicest person in the world returned it to you, you can't be sure who had it first, if your cards were already skimmed or whatever.