ASAP Data Breach

[MikeBz]

I suspect Amazon security systems flagged up your transaction as potentially suspicious and put a notional £1 through to see if it triggered a bank rejection as a cancelled or compromised card.

I know it's common for vendors to try a small notional transaction as a test, but it doesn't explain why it can take a week to cancel that notional transaction after the real transaction has cleared. Nor why they still do it when they have had my card details stored for years and used for every transaction I make with them.

 

[Robert Wilson]

I know it's common for vendors to try a small notional transaction as a test, but it doesn't explain why it can take a week to cancel that notional transaction after the real transaction has cleared. Nor why they still do it when they have had my card details stored for years and used for every transaction I make with them.

+1

 

[chriss999]

The delay in cancelling the notional £1 is probably not down to the retailer. Even if the retailer cancels the transaction on day, we find that it can still take up to a week for that the flow through to the account via the card company.

 

[UK-WOOZY]

low and behold i had a call and text from Halifax yesterday afternoon to say a payment of 0 had been made to encapsulation technology. then a failed transfer of £100. I knew i had a balance of £28. So seems after all my debit card had been used since i shopped at Force4/ASAP a lot recently. So new card re-issued.