Don't be fooled by cunning con artists

!!! wrote: »

If you do get "fooled" by such things, then close all your bank accounts, email accounts, Facebook accounts, and disconnect your router and phone line.

And never touch them. Ever again. Ever.

There is an unfortunately fast growing group in the UK who are stuck at home, inadequately supervised instead of under proper state-funded care for whom sadly that might be very very good advice.

(Think cognitive decline with age, and Alzheimers and Dementia, and Social Care budgets decimated ...)

Banks know there are pots of serious money in their care belonging to vulnerable customers like that - far bigger pots of money than in the hands of generations that followed. I applaud Barclays for starting a modest movement to acknowledge the dangers - if you visit the links you get a feel for who they really mean to aim this message at.

eskbanker wrote: »

Banks are commercial organisations who are in business to make profits. They will accept responsibility for what they need to accept, but can hardly be realistically expected to unquestioningly underwrite the consequences of negligence by their customers. Naturally that doesn't preclude them from trying to educate customers about the perils of phishing, etc, but that doesn't make it the banks' responsibility to accept liability for losses.

I don't subscribe so can't access that paywalled article but feel free to copy/paste whatever it is that you're looking to refer to and then it can be debated as necessary!

Sorry I have been subscribed for free with FT for donkeys years. With a username like yours, I'd have expected you might recognise the title of the letter - it was a letter to FT by Marcus Agius and 16 other financial services chairmen/CEO's about improving their corporate culture.

So I have been able to refer back to it many times over the years and the thrust of the thing is still fresh in my mind. Sadly it was never fresh in the minds of the financial services industry bosses after they licked the stamp and posted the thing to FT.com

Anyway I am not permitted to copy FT.com articles, but you lucky MSE'ers can read most of the text of an erstwhile Barclays Chairman's letter which was published originally under the FT title "Financial leaders pledge excellence and integrity", within a third party article a couple of weeks after the original letter hit the press.

The letter text is in italics, punctuated this time with a bit of tolerable commentary, courtesy of another website

Resonate, does it, with anything that you could possibly tolerate in moderation of corporate headlong drives for legal profits?

PS I will try to find a full copy of the text somewhere for free ... oops here we go, some kind persons appear to have used it in evidence of something as part of a legal case file and then published it online : http://www.fortfield.com/casefiles/ft-financial-leaders-pledge-excellence-integrity-28sept2010.pdf

EssexExile wrote: »

'Cos us old people are really vulnerable!

We all will be at some stage, if we don't pop off first! It is quite interesting how fast some of the younger more unfortunate over 60s decline cognitively, whereas a few over 90s are quite sharp.

One secret I guess is if you have a brain, keep stretching it else you might begin to lose it. Others however succumb to Alzheimers or dementia or similar and currently, unless Eli Lilly get their skates on, can't do much to stop it. Some suffer far too young with it, and many go undiagnosed to the grave because few UK doctors seem to want to be responsible for such a diagnosis.