Barclays account recycling

Barclays_recycling

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[FONT=&quot]All new Barclays personal banking customers[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]If you have recently opened an account with Barclays, the chances are that you have been given a recycled account number – one that previously belonged to another customer.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Barclays fail to undertake the most rudimentary security procedures in processing personal cheques (such as ensuring the name on the cheque matches that of the account from which the funds are being drawn).[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]This means that previous account holders are free to cash cheques against your account.[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Barclays cannot guarantee that this will not happen.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Be vigilant and check your account frequently.[/FONT]

newfoundglory

Bloody hell, is this true? :eek:

exel1966

Probably not !!

BASFORDLAD

Typical newbie

Barclays_recycling

It is true. I closed one of two current accounts in 2006, mistakenly used the old chequebook for a year and a half. Six years later it turns out that the money had been debited from someone else's account (using a recycled account number)