Accidental crime...

[ChinChinDarlings]

NC, because I have become an inadvertent criminal.

This sounds unlikely but it true and I would like some advice and insight.

I was out today with a friend, lunch, galleries, bit of shopping. Tapping away merrily with my card.

My husband met me at the station to pick me up and I said I needed to go to the supermarket to get something and he asked what I'd been paying with all day because he had my card in his pocket.

We'd been away at the weekend and he'd been using my card because that was the card we had on us, I have a premium banking product and my card is very distinctive. I'd checked that I had my card in my holder before I went out today because I knew We'd both been using it at the weekend. Saw it was in my holder and have been tapping away all day.

The card I had in my holder and have been merrily using all day, is not my card. It belongs to a man I've never heard of. The only solution I can see is that I picked his identical card up that he left on a table and I assumed it was my card.

I have been spending a stranger's money all day. Shall I just phone the bank? Won't I look like a criminal?

TL;DR. I have accidentally spent some blokes money all day. I don't know what to do!

@Betterbuckleupbarbara you seem overly invested.

Why?

Does it matter?

Judging from the posts there is no chance that could be the case. Or anything like it. My guess is Gangster’s Moll (haha that ages me).

I'm glad you've managed to sort it out OP.

For what it's worth, my DC had his wallet and phone stolen (obviously a completely different scenario!), we reported to the police to get a crime number for insurance and the police actually said 'just so you know, we absolutely won't be investigating this'! Whoever stole his wallet went on a spending spree but the bank refunded everything.

I can absolutely understand how this happened to you and phew that it's now all sorted!

Lack of imagination? Hunger more like.

It's a type of card to stealth boast about.

She said she tapped four times and paid about 200 quid so it adds up.

That's an odd supposition.

Yeah ok OP, pull the other one it's got bells on.

I could just about believe it until this "apparently" happened to your sister as well.

@ChinChinDarlings I think the lack of sleep is making you imagine things but seriously are you ok?

What an odd coincidence

Well that was a lie.

😁

It absolutely was.

🤣🥂

You look in dark corners, you find spiders!

So, they breached the data protection act by giving you another customer's bank details?

Unlikely.

Did you also self report that your husband uses your (tres exclusive) bank card, because with most (all) banks, that is against their terms.

You're starting to sound like a pervy 1970s psychiatrist.

I have his bank details because I am in possession of his card!

I’m loving OP’s sense of humour, she has a come back for every cutting remark.

Most banks offering Premium banking have 24 hr telephone banking. Just saying.

So, as I said about ten hours ago, you could have just done that straight away. No drama.

But, you kind of like the drama, right?

That's what I said too.

I think the moral of this story is that money doesn't buy brains!

At 23.01 you said "his bank details are not on his card".

So, which is it?

And yet in last night when someone suggested you could pay him with the details on his card, you said there were no bank details on the card 🤔

Indeed. They are, shock horror, just normal banks (faints at the thought) who offer extra services and funny coloured cards to mugs apparently speshul insecure customers.