Credit cards stolen

A few days ago we discovered that three of our credit cards were stolen from our hotel room in Bangkok.  I had left my wallet in a ‘secret pouch’ in my rucksack as we hadn’t used it since we left the UK.  When having a review of our finances Sam noticed that her visa card was missing, and after a long search, two of mine had also gone.  We knew it was too much of a coincidence to loose all three at once and without hesitation it was off to the internet shop to check our accounts.

Sure enough our statements were showing fraudulent activity, all in Bangkok, the majority for Boots, Tesco Lotus, some mobile phone shop and several ladies clothing outlets – around £650 in total so far.  The hotel staff must have searched our sacks while we were out sightseeing.  Interestingly, only the cards which had the ‘visa’ logo were taken.

Several expensive calls later to our banks, they have agreed to refund the money but only when we sign disclaimer forms which they plan on sending out to us in the next day or so (somewhere).

Now we are travelling with only one visa card until we can get the replacements shipped out to us somewhere – we’ll have to ask Debbie nicely in the next week or so.

Yet another valuable lesson learnt.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 2:20 am and is filed under 5-Cambodia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.