Fraud with credit cards reaches Box customers – Daily News – Lisbon

Thousands of CGD customers were confronted with strange movements, made in recent days and from Brazil with their credit cards Visa

Thousands of customers of Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) were surprised in recent days with payments that never made with their credit cards, found the DN / Mad Money. The strange movements and without authorization made with Visa credit cards are from Brazil.

Asked by DN / Money Vivo, the state bank “confirms that have been identified fraudulent movements originating with credit cards in Brazil” . official source ensures that “view with procedures were immediately triggered to ensure their regularization, in particular with the international VISA network, which is assured.”

This fraud has been detected in recent days, with customers they are surprised with payments ever made, from Brazil. CGD refused to give information about the number of affected customers, as well as the amounts involved, but sources contacted by the DN / Mad Money say that this is thousands of people.

An official source CGD ensures however that customers’ interests are not affected by this occurrence. “

the DN / Mad Money tried to contact the Visa Portugal but by the close of this edition could not get any answer.

in recent times there have been numerous reports in the Brazilian media to realize a new fraudulent method. Criminals, identifying themselves as employees of a financial institution, linked to the victims’ house to question whether made certain purchases. The victim does not recognize these costs and the alleged employee of the bank then warns that the credit card was cloned, asks for it to be cut in half – but keeping intact the chip – and immediately delivered through a courier. With the data in their possession, offenders spend large sums. The official bank call comes later but this time warning of the true fraudulent use of credit card.

There are several precautions to take with bank cards to avoid such situations, and that will from extracts refers to the use of ATMs, through the precautions with purchases made online.

the owner of a bank card must confirm regularly the movements made with this card were properly recorded and the values ​​are correct. If detects an abnormality, the cardholder must immediately contact the issuing credit institution. The financial institution can cancel the card to prevent them from being made more irregular operations.

In use in commercial establishments, the card should not be passed on more than one device. Only when the machine indicates that the first attempt was aborted or unsuccessful whether to allow the payment transaction to be repeated. In the ATM one of the simplest forms of fraud is placing a hidden camcorder, which records the security codes entered by users, or placing a fake device placed in the input slot cards. In online shopping, the customer must make sure that the web page in question meets the necessary security measures, and that the computer is adequately protected.