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Help! Father badly scammed

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  • sheramber
    sheramber Posts: 23,648 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped! Name Dropper
    eskbanker wrote: »
    I don't believe that OP indicated the gender of the fraudsters....

    #casualsexismcutsbothways
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    He believed that the FCA were about to make some high profile arrests and my father was integral to bringing them down.
  • brianposter
    brianposter Posts: 1,600 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 9 December 2018 at 8:50PM
    You are not prohibited from communicating with the bank in Abu Dhabi. You never know what the result of writing to them might be, or maybe they have some representation in the UK.
  • JoBrink
    JoBrink Posts: 4 Newbie
    I'm inclined to agree with you, only both the transactions on the first day were made with a Lloyds debit card. If they had been made with a credit card, the credit card company would probably have put a block at least on the second transaction given the two transactions were made in the space of an hour at most.
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