Property News · July 30, 2016

How a phone call from ‘the bank’ cost an unsuspecting couple their life savings


A retired headmaster lost £134,000 to a fraudsters posing as TSB banking investigators, who conviced him to move cash to bogus Barclays accountsIt started with a call from someone pretending to be from the bank, and ended with a retired headmaster losing everything.Peter and Sarah Holmes, both in their 80s and from Yorkshire, have become the latest victims of one of the fastest growing and most pernicious scams – which has cost them their life savings of £134,000. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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