RE: UK Banks to reimburse scam victims6 Feb 2023 14:30
Gazzleberry
We have one current account for day-to-day bills etc, with the minimum in it to cover everything.
Then we have a savings account for other monies, transactions no cards are used to transfer in or out money by ourselves. Once the money in this account reaches a certain amount the excess is removed by visiting the bank and using a banker's draft, to move any monies into the current account from where it is moved into other secure positions.
If you read my reply to Wondering on, you will see the name of a certain Feezan Choudhary, whom several years past attempted to scam my wife. Called saying he was from Nat West, knew every detail of our joint account, and even knew the name of the local branch manager! He was very convincing but after nearly an hour on the Phone he must have got fed up, he then suggested we contact the bank with a number provided by himself, which was refused. My Wife said that she would nip around to the bank, Mr Choudhary even said he would phone ahead and let them know we were visiting.
On telling the story to the branch manager whose name the scammer knew, he checked a name of a woman the scammer had given us who he said worked in the fraud office, the manager checked her name and she did exist in the Bristol office.
When of course I asked the manager how a person could know so much detail about our account, he could or would not answer. Only sometime later during his trial did the facts come out, he paid NatWest staff for providing names and details, nation wide.