Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=22=27Scammers_stole_=C2=A340k_after_EDF_gave_out_m?= =?UTF-8?Q?y_number=22?= Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 21:08:50 +0100 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net IijCdi5TN/V/7K7NjbqTCAQTc9iDf9LJIlDyca0/NaWNeCxUj8 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:rnKAiy78cJA1FdQIHSl2e+ORHOU= sha256:RNhjqdSLMlHgNzyJazIExl7Bu3bu45xeLutYdUCjEfU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2501 On 2025-03-05 15:33, Frank Slootweg wrote: > Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-03-05 14:25, Frank Slootweg wrote: >>> Chris wrote: >>> [...] >>>> Fortunately, the victim has had his 40k refunded. >>> >>> Do you have a reference - with details - for that? I.e. who accepted >>> responsibility for which fault(s)? >> >> Quote: «National Savings and Investments said it had refunded him the >> money taken from his account.» >> >> And that's the £40000, because earlier it reads (quote): >> >> «Worse news was to come, when he learned his National Savings and >> Investments password had been changed. >> >> "After an hour of talking to different people there, they said, 'You've >> actually taken out a very large amount of premium bonds, over £40,000'," >> said Stephen.» > > Thanks for that! I apparently overlooked the first quote. I only saw > the £50 "goodwill gesture" from EDF, which was a clear insult and so was > the £125 "goodwill gesture" from O2 Virgin Media. The article has the information not in order, spread all over the text. The refund line is very near the end. -- Cheers, Carlos.