Credit card fraud - Friendship grocery store

[TimBKK]

FYI - I recently used my USA credit card (Chase Bank) at Friendship, as I’ve done regularly for several years, but the next day was alerted to 3 fraud charges on the card:  1 from Ikea and 2 from something called “LushCOMUK” - total was roughly 600 USD.  Fortunately, each was flagged as fraudulent and declined.

 

Watch your cc use at Friendship.

[johng]

USA credit card at Friendship ?

just use cash...lucky the fraud was detected.

[scubascuba3]

If you'd used your credit card in Google Wallet (that's what i do) they can't commit fraud

[TimBKK]

54 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

If you'd used your credit card in Google Wallet (that's what i do) they can't commit fraud

Why cannot commit fraud with Google Wallet?  Have never used it, or anything like it.

[connda]

1 hour ago, TimBKK said:

FYI - I recently used my USA credit card (Chase Bank) at Friendship, as I’ve done regularly for several years, but the next day was alerted to 3 fraud charges on the card:  1 from Ikea and 2 from something called “LushCOMUK” - total was roughly 600 USD.  Fortunately, each was flagged as fraudulent and declined.

 

Watch your cc use at Friendship.

You fully understand defamation laws here, right?

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, johng said:

USA credit card at Friendship ?

just use cash...lucky the fraud was detected.

My foreign credit card is locked in the drawer. Use for online purposes.

Last physical use was for car rental in Phuket some years ago.

[johng]

Almost every time I try to use my UK card in Thailand it's flagged as fraudulent and blocked...resulting in long tedious phone calls to try unlocking it again....well at least till I learned my lesson  just use a Thai card or cash when in Thailand.

[bkk6060]

You call Chase?

How were the attempt purchases made?  In store or online?

Did you use the card any place else in the past 30 days? 

Lush is a UK cosmetic company they have a store in Terminal 21.

IKEA has stores in Thailand. 

 

I have had this happen to me a couple of times. Unless you have not used the card for awhile maybe Friendship was not to bame.

 

[Espanol]

 

For Europeans, the rechargeable Revolut and N26 cards are practical. The exchange rate is the official one, rather than the bank rate (10% lower), and since they are rechargeable debit cards, you avoid the problem of having them cloned and having large sums charged to them. 

For online purchases, use virtual single-use cards. 

Never use credit cards, because the risk of high charges is very high.

[scubascuba3]

41 minutes ago, TimBKK said:

Why cannot commit fraud with Google Wallet?  Have never used it, or anything like it.

You would pay using your smartphone, Contactless, no one at Friendship would see the credit card details. It's also quicker than using QR codes, so I use in Lotus, Big C, but available other outlets. Phone needs to have NFC functionality, when i bought a new phone i made sure it had NFC, definitely needed it when visiting UK

[pomchop]

use chase card at friendship often...never a problem

[TimBKK]

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

You call Chase?

They emailed an alert in the overnight here, asking if the charge was legit.  When I called, I was pleasantly surprised that they were willing to send a new card to Thailand despite my address of record being in the U.S.  Chase did well in this instance.

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

How were the attempt purchases made?  In store or online?

In store, always.

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Did you use the card any place else in the past 30

Just Friendship, and once at Villa a few weeks ago.

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

I have had this happen to me a couple of times. Unless you have not used the card for awhile maybe Friendship was not to bame.

Maybe….but I doubt it.

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

 

 

[TimBKK]

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

You would pay using your smartphone, Contactless, no one at Friendship would see the credit card details. It's also quicker than using QR codes, so I use in Lotus, Big C, but available other outlets. Phone needs to have NFC functionality, when i bought a new phone i made sure it had NFC, definitely needed it when visiting UK

Appreciate that, will have to look into Google Pay and the like.

[TimBKK]

4 hours ago, connda said:

You fully understand defamation laws here, right?

I knew there was a reason I had you on ignore, thanks for the reminder.

[Harrisfan]

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

You would pay using your smartphone, Contactless, no one at Friendship would see the credit card details. It's also quicker than using QR codes, so I use in Lotus, Big C, but available other outlets. Phone needs to have NFC functionality, when i bought a new phone i made sure it had NFC, definitely needed it when visiting UK

What if you lose your phone?

[scubascuba3]

6 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

What if you lose your phone?

Same if you lose your wallet