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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3347481 Partly upheld

Partly upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Thu Mar 31deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

APP scam refund refused

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr L complains that HSBC UK Bank Plc (“HSBC”) has refused to refund several payments he made using his HSBC Visa debit card. He says he made these payments on the advice of someone he believed was training him to trade. This person, Mr L says, turned out to be a fraudster and stole his money.APP scam refund refused

Rules cited

Payment Services Regulations 2017

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3347481.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.