{"id":21398,"date":"2016-07-30T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-phone-call-from-the-bank-cost-an-unsuspecting-couple-their-life-savings\/"},"modified":"2016-07-30T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:08:57","slug":"how-a-phone-call-from-the-bank-cost-an-unsuspecting-couple-their-life-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-phone-call-from-the-bank-cost-an-unsuspecting-couple-their-life-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"How a phone call from \u2018the bank\u2019 cost an unsuspecting couple their life savings"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA retired headmaster lost \u00a3134,000 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 \u2013 which has cost them their life savings of \u00a3134,000. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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