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Stirlingsays 20 Oct 23 1.33pm | |
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Originally posted by silvertop
Computer says "no". Poor woman. She should write to Moneybox. Once broadcast, they practically always get an apology, a resolution, and sometimes a keep-quiet bung. BTW, one can hate Farage AND the banks. Some think he's positioning himself to come back to the Tories to lead it post election defeat. I've no idea if it's true or not but wow....the political blood on the floor over that would be something to see.....literal war within the party. Much more fun that real war.
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Behind Enemy Lines Sussex 20 Oct 23 3.39pm | |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Exactly. As soon as she ticked that box I get that it flagged her account but then a human being did get involved and chose to continue the process. But then banks don't go arbitrarily punishing people.... As an aside, I have an interesting case at the moment with one of the high street banks…in the summer I got an email from the bank thanking me for making an appointment at one of their branches to talk about opening additional facilities. It listed the bank account number. Two points: first, the appointment was 150 miles away from where I live and secondly I don’t hold a bank account with the bank in question. I thought it was a scam and so looked up their fraud line number and asked them to investigate. I heard nothing further from them.
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Badger11 Beckenham 20 Oct 23 4.13pm | |
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Originally posted by Behind Enemy Lines
As an aside, I have an interesting case at the moment with one of the high street banks…in the summer I got an email from the bank thanking me for making an appointment at one of their branches to talk about opening additional facilities. It listed the bank account number. Two points: first, the appointment was 150 miles away from where I live and secondly I don’t hold a bank account with the bank in question. I thought it was a scam and so looked up their fraud line number and asked them to investigate. I heard nothing further from them. I feel for you. The real question is how were they able to open accounts? Banks have to do Know Your Customer check so either they failed to do so in which case this is a serious error and should be reported to the regulators or the scammers had really good fake documents. When people are scammed and transfer money to a fake bank account opened by fraudsters again I would question how they were able to open that account in the first place. You should tell the credit ratings agencies as well these people are not going to stop at that. I expect they already have credit cards in your name.
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Behind Enemy Lines Sussex 20 Oct 23 6.33pm | |
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Originally posted by Badger11
I feel for you. The real question is how were they able to open accounts? Banks have to do Know Your Customer check so either they failed to do so in which case this is a serious error and should be reported to the regulators or the scammers had really good fake documents. When people are scammed and transfer money to a fake bank account opened by fraudsters again I would question how they were able to open that account in the first place. You should tell the credit ratings agencies as well these people are not going to stop at that. I expect they already have credit cards in your name. Don’t worry Badger, there is a further part to the story. I carried out searches against my address and also did address searches against people with my name; one popped up in the town where the original appointment was held. In addition that person was recorded at his address for about a decade. I was therefore pretty sure that I hadn’t been scammed but I felt that the bank should double check their records and satisfy my fears. That’s what I’m waiting for.
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