Rogue cabbie ripped me off as well
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POLICE are investigating a second complaint about a taxi driver involved in a credit card scam.
Matt Beard travelled by taxi from Hanley to Burslem and was asked by the driver to pay the £5 fee by credit card.
But the 18-year-old from Mill Hill later discovered he had been given back a credit card belonging to a Matthew Waymont, rather than his own.
After calling his bank to report his missing card Mr Beard was told £80 had been taken from his account.
The Sentinel was contacted by Mr Waymont after we printed Mr Beard's story last week.
Mr Waymont, a Staffordshire University student, was approached by the taxi driver after a night out at university venue LRV in Leek Road on October 29.
The 23-year-old told The Sentinel the taxi driver had warned him about a group of youths with broken bottles further down the road and said he could give him a lift home.
He was asked to pay the £3 fare by credit card but was told the machine was broken after entering his pin number twice.
Mr Waymont only realised that the taxi driver hadn't given him his card back the following day when he went to withdraw some cash.
After visiting his bank to cancel his missing card he discovered £300 had been withdrawn from his account and a further £500 spent in transactions.
Mr Waymont, who lives in College Road, Shelton, said: "I got in the taxi, because the driver warned me of the youths and I was a victim of a mugging earlier this year.
"I thought it looked like a genuine taxi. He told me he could only accept card as payment but after I punched in my pin number twice he said it was broken and would take cash so I gave him £3 in coins.
"I thought he had given me my card back. It wasn't until I went to the cash point the next day that I realised he must have kept it.
"When I went into the bank I couldn't believe it when they told me £800 had gone out of my account."
Nationwide has since refunded the money to Mr Waymont's account.
Both victims said the driver was Asian, aged in his early to mid-20s, and was driving a silver car.
Staffordshire Police today confirmed they are investigating both complaints, which are also being looked into by Stoke-on-Trent City Council's licensing department.
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