The payment has come up as ‘London Transport’ rather than TFL. Anyone have any insight on this?

In message , at 15:14:56 on
Tue, 19 Jun 2018, matthew3774
remarked:

The payment has come up as ‘London Transport’ rather than TFL. Anyone
have any insight on this?

Mine says (sorry about the caps):

TFL.GOV.UK/CP - VICTORIA STREET, TFL TRAVEL CH,SW1H 0TL,GBR

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Roland Perry

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In message , at 15:14:56 on Tue,
19 Jun 2018, matthew3774
remarked:

The payment has come up as ‘London Transport’ rather than TFL. Anyone
have any insight on this?

Mine says (sorry about the caps):

TFL.GOV.UK/CP - VICTORIA STREET, TFL TRAVEL CH,SW1H 0TL,GBR

when I made an online top-up to my PAYG I got:

OYSTER RENEW WEB 0343 2221234 GB

Like the phone number is significant to the transaction :-)

tim

On 20/06/2018 07:34, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 15:14:56 on
Tue, 19 Jun 2018, matthew3774
remarked:

The payment has come up as ‘London Transport’ rather than TFL. Anyone
have any insight on this?

Mine says (sorry about the caps):

TFL.GOV.UK/CP - VICTORIA STREET, TFL TRAVEL CH,SW1H 0TL,GBR

when I made an online top-up to my PAYG I got:

OYSTER RENEW WEB 0343 2221234 GB

Like the phone number is significant to the transaction :-)


To be fair, if you were questioning the transaction it's very handy to
have a phone number there...

In message , at 07:34:01 on Wed, 20 Jun
2018, tim... remarked:

The payment has come up as ‘London Transport’ rather than TFL. Anyone
have any insight on this?

Mine says (sorry about the caps):

TFL.GOV.UK/CP - VICTORIA STREET, TFL TRAVEL CH,SW1H 0TL,GBR

when I made an online top-up to my PAYG I got:

OYSTER RENEW WEB 0343 2221234 GB

What we can probably conclude from this it that the wording in question
isn't pushed by TfL to the card company, but comes from a lookup table
held by the card company, into which they have put something they think
might be helpful to their customers (or more precisely, helpful to the
bank because it seeks to reduce the number of calls they get querying
the charges).
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Roland Perry

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:40:27AM +0100, Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 20/06/2018 07:34, tim... wrote:
when I made an online top-up to my PAYG I got:
OYSTER RENEW WEB 0343 2221234 GB
Like the phone number is significant to the transaction :-)
To be fair, if you were questioning the transaction it's very handy to
have a phone number there...

If I were questioning a transaction I wouldn't pay much attention to a
phone number that is presumably supplied by the person I think is
trying to scam me. Just like how if someone phones me claiming to be
from my bank I won't take their word for it, nor will I call any number
that they helpfully tell me over the phone.

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