Consumers are being warned against writing down the PIN numbers for their credit cards, after a Which? study suggested that as many as 7 million credit and debit card holders in the UK have left a written record. While the study only highlighted 1 in 10 users as writing their PIN down, worryingly, more than a [...]

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Is comes as no suprise that bank fraud is on the increase. I worked for a UK tax practice that had clients consisting of Lords, CEO’s (One of which was the CEO of one of britains biggest banks!)
Unbeknown to these clients all the processing work was sent to India for processing! It returned to the UK 5% of which were checked the remainder just sent to the client by the admin team.
Tax Returns require a whole host of information which could provide a would be fraudster with 99% of the information they require,National Insurance numbers, addresses, date of births, bank account numbers etc etc.
I think it should be a legal obligation that Accountancy/Tax practices whether affiliated or not should have to tell their clients if they use such methods as outsourcing.
Also should those using such a raft of personal information be CRB checked?

banks usually warn consumers not to write their CC pin codes anywhere. After receiving pin codes it's consumers responsiblity to take care of it otherwise he will have to face problems later.