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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN7490977 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£2,500redress stated in the decision
Mon Nov 04deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused

In the Ombudsman’s words

Santander told Miss J it’d need to see some form of proof of entitlement to the money in her account. ... It then proceeded to close her accounts and register her details with fraud prevention agencies.Account closed or refused

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN7490977.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.