"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Harry Stottle wrote:
"ARWadsworth" wrote in message
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I tried to withdraw some money from a cash point on Saturday and again
on Sunday. I assumed that the cash machine was empty when I failed to
get any money. I tried again today and "Unauthorised access" was
displayed on the screen. I then phoned the bank and just before my
mobile phone battery died I was told that "SID" was in place.

Any ideas on what a "SID" is? The bank is now shut and I cannot call
them back until the morning.


Suspicious incident detected?


Yup. Its something like that.

Same thing happened to me when I decided to clear a bunch of BT bills and
so on online using my card. After two, it froze the account. I phoned up
and they reset something, and I had to go into my own banks ATM'sd and
reset the PIN to the same as it was.

They said that the commonest use of cards that are skimmed is to do online
purchases. I said that was a bit stupid if someone paid their own
traceable BT bill with someone's nicked credit card..

A load of easily traceable stuff was paid for by whoever nicked my card
details a while back. I got the impression that the bank wouldn't be
following things up at all.