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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Wood

Mother was scammed out of £29,000, but Lloyds showed little empathy

Flagging up the problem: one of the accounts that was opened online could not be verified.
Flagging up the problem: one of the accounts that was opened online could not be verified. Photograph: Chris Dorney/Alamy

My mother, JK, has been a Lloyds Bank customer for 30 years and last summer fell victim to authorised push payment fraud. She was scammed out of close to £30,000.

English is not her first language, and I have been trying to help her get the money back.

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