Gentle Readers, after eight weeks of diligently scrutinizing the classified advertisements, taking shoe print impressions in plaster of Paris, signaling across the Grimpen Mire with a candle stub and taking discreet carriage rides in the freezing fog, Dr Watson is proud to proclaim the success of his colleague and affirm The Case of Fraud to be finally closed. And with much relief he is pleased to forego the necessity of mentioning the usage of rare and poisonous spiders, snakes, pygmy blow pipes or fatalities adjacent to impressive natural features in the landscape. (See below a communique from Saturday 20 September.)
Dr Watson was initially troubled by the protracted length of the affair. He had felt certain that the effects of such a minor, though highly inconvenient larceny, would be mitigated and soon remedied entirely. Therefore he was much dismayed to witness the relentless caravan of foolery and inattentiveness that streamed unbroken from the institutions of finance.
No matter, dauntless and untiring his colleague proceeded in a gentlemanly pace, examining each mystery or obstacle as it appeared, employing a cunning and sensitive mind to the unravelling of the case. Let it not be glossed over that in addition to the disappearance of the sum of £1,490 the bank was pleased to levy charges of £170 which in themselves were deep and mysterious to fathom. Happily these excesses were voided by the gallant Mr John, who's good service at the local branch of the banking institution was a lamp of clarity and cheer at a time of obscuration.
In conclusion to the lengthy affair Dr Watson reflects upon and cautions the usage of credit arrangements that involve the relinquishing of personal credit tokens within emporia, coffee houses or hostelries, whereby the credit token in question is temporarily relinquished from ones' side, however briefly, for the legitimate purposes of the scanning, lest illegitimate functions such as data copying are performed unnoticed.
Mr Holmes' client has no recall of this happening to her person, but since the obtaining of the relevant details could logically have been performed at any time within the last year and one half, she cannot, in all honesty be secure in her denial of this possibility. For a fuller exposition of this Case of Fraud, be pleased to read Dr Watson's chilling, enlightening and, as ever, faithful narrative.
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Other possibilities are "skimmers" (I think that's the term) where people attach a wee doodad to an ATM to capture your PIN and card number, and capturing your details when yo use your card on a public WiFi network. That last happened to Parami in an airport.
Your security word today is "frumit," which is a splendid one!
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