Bank Account Emptied

[Huddersfield]

I regularly get called by Barclaycard querying 'unusual activity' on the card...usually big purchases or away on holiday & it's always a pain when they put a temporary block on the card. So I got the call a couple of months back on holiday; I complained to anyone who would listen (which was nobody really) about ringing them & then found I'd had over £1K spent at a department store & on fuel in New York. Credit to them, the money was reimbursed without query (other than me saying I didn't recognise the transaction) to my account before I even saw the next statement & had a replacement card within a week.

On the one hand I was impressed how smoothly they dealt with the problem, but on the other hand I thought it felt like credit card fraud must be ridiculously easy to carry out...for all they know I could have just passed the details on to someone in New York & taken a cut of the profits (I didn't, but wonder how they can be sure I didn't).