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Barclays not liable for couple defrauded of £700,000

Barclays not liable for couple defrauded of £700,000

Bank Fraud News Despite promises of better safeguarding for bank customers, there are still many examples of people losing huge sums to such frauds. KwikChex has recently been assisting a consumer that had paid £70,000 to a bogus investment business that was masquerading as another, registered business. We were able to

£25,000 stolen online. But even more shocking: Barclays washes its hands of it

Credits: The Guardian, By Patrick Collinson 5th March 2016 It’s not just the fact that a "life-changing” £25,000 was stolen from a couple scraping together the money to build an extension. It’s not even the fact that they fell victim to the clearly very sophisticated hijacking of an email account. What is truly shockin