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Silks · 2018-01-24 11:54:58

My 22 year old son got mugged last Friday night walking back home from the tube. Five youths surrounded him, said they'd got knives and told him to hand over his wallet and phone. They demanded the PIN for his bank card and said one of them would run to an ATM and get cash. If he gave them a wrong number, he'd be sorry.…

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scott_lithgows Posts: 1,427 Forumite

26 January 2018 at 7:26PM

Bad situation,in the big scheme of things it's better to lose 200 quid than your life.
His relationship with santander is lost and perhaps using a switching bonus might be a way of getting some of the cash back.

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