Pensioner drowned himself after losing £20,000 to fraud and forgetting bank repaid it

6 comments

1. Very sad for rhe people involved. 

   Zooming out it seems as though the credulous, recently online boomer is the golden goose for scammers and con-artists: wealthy, coddled, lonely (after becoming estranged from their kids owing to their Faragist rants) and will not countenance being wrong about anything.

2. Ok IT warriors. All u online ethical hackers etc. How’s about teaming up with the uk government and taking down these scam centers in India? They target elderly people. Our most vulnerable and accomplished, why are we not protecting them?

3. I think the important part, that the title massively leaves out, is that the person in question had dementia.

4. I am guessing he had no family then. Someone with dementia should not have access to online bank accounts as a precaution against scammers.

5. Scamming and pushing a pensioner to suicide for less than 1 year of the national minimum wage.

6. My problem with fraud in the UK is that there is no responsibility on the phone carriers (as far as I am aware).

   As soon as a number is linked with any form of fraud, it should be listed as suspicious across all carriers so people know it’s dodgy, until it gets blocked.

   Ofcom should also have some powers to claim money back from carriers that are allowing that network to be leveraged by scammers rather than putting all the owners on banks.

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