Well that was painless...

Money will be refunded within 5 working days, I get a form in the post to sign and return, if I do so then I get to keep the refund... they'll retrieve the monies from the companies it went to in their own good time. He looked at the month I couldn't find the statements for and found two O2 PAYG top-ups as well, so they've been added to the pile.

One of the transactions was to Hackney Council - I'm on the phone to them at the minute, they think it's a parking ticket, which is interesting; presumably that would link the dodgy transactions to a car numberplate, which quite possibly isn't stolen if they're bothering to pay the tickets for it...

Updatey the third...

In exciting news, the Hackney Council charge was indeed a parking ticket, and they did indeed give me the registration plate of the vehicle involved.

In less exciting news, when I reported all this to the local police they basically said "Hereisyourcrimereferencenumberhaveaniceday". When I asked about the possibility of actually using the information to catch someone, they got a bit shifty... I have to call back in a week to find out whether they decided to bother investigating or not. Bit disappointing considering I potentially just gave them the thief's home address.