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Got caught for about £3500 by this scam, picked up on it when our tyre supplier phoned requesting early payment as we had reached our credit limit, found that the workshop manager was under the impression that when a payment by card was authorised all was ok!!. There were a further £600 of tyres awaiting collection the next day so i phoned the card company and found the card was not reported stolen (yet) but not registered to the address supplied. I went straight to the police as we were in a position to catch the scum and they were not interested, told me i would have to wait 5 weeks to see if the payment was taken back by the card company and if it was they would then investigate. of course by then the low lifes would be long gone. I then did the polices job for them and phoned round all the other garages in the area. Three were being scammed total over all was about 10k. So when the cab company called to get the tyres i phoned 999 and said we were being robbed. A traffic car turned up with 2 plod who listened to my story, said as it was 20 miles away the cab was going it was off their patch, got back in the car and drove off. Not surprising crime goes on when even when handed criminals on a plate the plod arent intrested. Needless to say we now no longer accept telephone payments