Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5583163 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Wed Nov 12deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

APP scam refund refused, Support for vulnerable customers

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr M complains that Bank of Scotland plc trading as Halifax (“Halifax”) didn’t do enough to protect him when he made payments towards an investment opportunity that he now considers was a scam.APP scam refund refused

Mr M has raised he was vulnerable at the time of making the payments and that P set out to scam him from the outset.Support for vulnerable customers

Rules cited

CRM Code (APP scam reimbursement)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5583163.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.