Hsbc Crook's Pounds 40,000 Raid On My Dad's Bank Savings ; Account Fraud Highlights Difficulty of Acting On Behalf of Vulnerable Relatives

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WHEN a neighbour alerted Richard Poole to a suspicious conversation she had overheard between his elderly father, Leonard, and a member of staff at his HSBC branch, he thought little of it at first.

But when he looked at his father's savings passbook after the neighbour's comments in March, Richard was horrified to discover that more than Pounds 40,000 had been taken out of the Premier Savings account over nine months. Although Leonard, 90, suffers from dementia, Richard was certain the withdrawals had not been made by his father.

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Hsbc Crook's Pounds 40,000 Raid On My Dad's Bank Savings ; Account Fraud Highlights Difficulty of Acting On Behalf of Vulnerable Relatives

Leonard always followed the same pattern of withdrawing Pounds 500 by cheque twice a month and the unusual transactions happened irregularly and were for thousands of pounds at a time - the l...

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