With the women the got scammed out of half a million, the bank had gone to extreme lengths to warn her, the bank had spoken to her in person and on the phone, the bank had written sent her warning letters, and the bank had arranged for the police to speak to the woman…..not once, but twice!
The woman believed the scammers when they told her bank employees in every branch were part of a secret group colluding to pinch her cash from her bank account, but surely she couldn’t have believed the police were also in on it, and could have divulged what the scammers had told her to the police.
I did feel sorry for her, but it would be totally wrong for the banks to compensate her for the half a million she lost, after all the attempts the bank made to dissuade and warn her. She would have been having her cake and eating it to be given another hall a million compensation after losing the first lot despite all the bank’s efforts to warn her. And it would be people perhaps without large savings who would ultimately pay her the compensation, as the bank would get the money back from its other customers.