Guardian Readers Share Tactics to Outsmart Bank Card Fraudsters

Have a little fun scamming the scammers | Letters

Gary Calder responds to an article by a Guardian Money reader who got even by stringing the fraudsters along Anyone wishing to get their own back on bank-card scammers using the method described in your article (‘I’ve £80k in the account, here’s my pin’: turning the tables on the scammers, 29 August) might like to add a touch of realism to a made-up bank-card number by picking a known issuer identification number (the first six to eight digits) and ensure that the last digit conforms to the L...

By Guardian Staff