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Banking phone scam

Robertthomas · 2018-11-08 16:41:40

My elderly father in law has just fallen for a sophisticated phone scam, pretending to be his bank and transferred out £100,000. After getting in touch with his actual bank's fraud team, they rejected his case within 24 hours! Does any one have any advice as to which specialist I could talk to, in order to challenge this…

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badger09 Posts: 11,575 Forumite

9 November 2018 at 12:19PM

bengal-stripe wrote: »

I was asking the same thing myself.

Furthermore, who has £100k hanging around in a current account to transfer the dosh 'just-like-that' onto some other account?

I will, probably next Friday when the sale of my late sister's house completes. I will probably use the £100k limit at Santander to distribute to the beneficiaries.

OK, maybe not 'just-like-that' as you imply, but not unique.

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