Thieves

 Heres a cautionary tale. Yesterday i took himself out because we hadnt been out all weekend due to expense , everything seems to add a premium on a bank holiday weekend . 
So i wanted to go to a local auction viewing and i bribed him with the promise of a bag of chips, gets to the chippy and my card didnt work , nothing unusual ive always got bugger all in my account but i should have got my pittance from the government , so after i got home i checked it online and found i had 4 transactions to a wedding firm in London? asked my son and he said your cards been scanned its a fraud . I rang the bank and after two or three attempts to get through on the automated system finally got a human in the fraud department , she was really good and i explained that i had unexplained transactions on my account , she asked quite a few questions , whether i had had any unexplained bank texts or phonecalls and funnily enough when i checked my phone id a text in the spam telling me i had set up google pay on my phone , which i knew nothing about !! when she went through all my transactions there was a £1.99 payment to a phone company in Barking London , they asked if i was willing to be contacted by the police which i have no problem with and then said they would stop my card and send out a new one plus refund the payments within 24 hours which they have done . All very prompt and helpful Coop Bank . Sons friend who does something in fraud says that they had set up a small rolling payment on a bank holiday that would gradually clean out your account and most people wouldnt notice so quickly or have so little in the bank so being poor has its advantages. Also because i obviously dont use phone banking at all, it isnt likely the bank would notice till after the bank holiday , so for future information always check your bank over a bank holiday for thieving bastards