Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2368076 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£100redress stated in the decision

Thu Dec 31deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Credit file reporting

In the Ombudsman’s words

Barclays received a report that fraudulent funds had been paid into Mr M’s account in December 2018. Following a review, it wrote to Mr M on 2 January 2019 to tell him his account would be closed. It added a CIFAS marker.Credit file reporting

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2368076.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.