My Avant card added to someone else's ewallet without my consent

[sheenalheavey@g]

On the 5th of July last and for a few days after I was also a victim of fraud via an e wallet set up using my Avant Money credit card details. I got the same OTP message from AM when they issues final response, they would not engage in any correspondence with me on the matter and debited me the c€4.6k. None of the 6 txns were referred for authorisation. I was out of the country they day they started and finished. Default mechanism appears to be to pay without referral. As my card is primarily dormant all transactions were in a different continent and totally out of course. Case with Ombudsman but I'm not confident. Would be interesting if others have been victims of same fraudsters.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Hi Sheena

This got lost as you added it to a thread which, although with Avant, was a separate issue.

Can you explain exactly what happened here. And give as much detail as possible.

1) What date was your card set up on someone else's e Wallet?
2) Did they send you an OTP to your phone to set it up.
3) Did they send a note to you telling you that your card was added to an eWallet?

The reason I ask is that Mikeyblue has a similar issue

avant credit card fraud getting nowhere

In Novemeber 2024 i received a call from the Avant Card fraud team informing me that my credit card had been compromised and over €4k had been taken from it, over a wide number of transactions across both the US , the UK and Ireland. I confirmed that i did not use my credit card and that i...

www.askaboutmoney.com