WARNING :re Curry and Argos Accounts

 There has been reports in other local policing areas from the public where Argos and Currys accounts have been comprimised, and purchases made. This is happening across the county.  In some instances, particularly  with Currys, the ‘buy now pay later’ option has been used, leaving the account holder with finance plans in their names, despite the purchase not being made by them, or goods received by them.

In many of the Argos cases, purchases have been made using the true account holders ‘ saved ’ payment details, requiring them to cancel and replace cards.

We would urge anyone with either a Currys or Argos account to take the preventative measure of changing their passwords at the earliest opportunity - unfortunately, neither company offer the option of 2 step verification (2SV) so our advice is to never save payment details on accounts that are not protected with 2SV. Until this becomes an option, we would strongly advise removing any saved payment methods.  Current best practice recommends putting three random words together to create a password- longer equals stronger, and also no chance of anyone guessing or working out your password. More info  =  Three random words - NSCS.GOV.UK

If any of your online accounts are compromised or you lose money to fraud  report to www.actionfraud.police.uk

Thank you