Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN2086591 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Mon Aug 08deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

BOS closed Miss M’s bank account because it said a fraudulent cheque was paid into her account.Account closed or refused

BOS investigated her complaint in 2016 and decided it had made a mistake.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN2086591.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.