{"id":6930,"date":"2016-03-05T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/25000-stolen-online-but-even-more-shocking-barclays-washes-its-hands-of-it\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T07:18:08","slug":"25000-stolen-online-but-even-more-shocking-barclays-washes-its-hands-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/25000-stolen-online-but-even-more-shocking-barclays-washes-its-hands-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a325,000 stolen online. But even more shocking: Barclays washes its hands of it"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFor this scam to work the fraudster had to open a bank account and provide all his personal informationIt\u2019s not just the fact that a \u201clife-changing\u201d \u00a325,000 was stolen from a couple scraping together the money to build an extension. It\u2019s not even the fact that they fell victim to the clearly very sophisticated hijacking of an email account. What is truly shocking about the above story is how the bank appears to know who stole the money \u2013 but is prepared to do almost nothing about it.The Fishers, from London, were conned into paying \u00a325,000 into a fraudster\u2019s account at Barclays Bank, believing it to be their builder\u2019s legitimate account. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…\u00a325,000 stolen online. But even more shocking: Barclays washes its hands of it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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