SUPERMARKET SWEEP... ON ME

MY PURSE was stolen the other day. Stupid me, I didn’t realise it had gone until I checked my banking app and found someone had conducted a supermarket sweep of all the corner shops and off-licences within a twomile radius of my home, aided and abetted by the e-scooters usefully supplied by Transport for London. Thanks to contactless payments, they managed to do considerable damage – until eventually my bank’s fraud systems clocked that perhaps it wasn’t me buying rolling tobacco and Jack Daniel’s on Earls Court Road at 2am.

For once, I am grateful to the technology for knowing me better than I know myself.