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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
There is a report in tonights Telegraph about a poor eighty two year old lady being conned out of £35,000 on a Spanish lottery scam. She has been paying large sums to different Spanish banks in the belief that it was taxes on her winnings. Surely if someone elderly starts making unusual payments like this the bank should get suspicious and question why!!!
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I read this in the paper today.
It's very sad and also quite frustrating that it's happened again as it's not the first time by a long way that a story of this kind has been in the news.
These fraudsters do tend to target the elderly....when will people ever learn?
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