Wife who was chatted up on Facebook... by the clerk who served her at bank!
A BANK worker tracked down a married customer and sent her flirty messages over Facebook.
Debbie Tuttle received a flurry of messages from a lovestruck employee at the HSBC branch she had visited that day.
The worker, who Mrs Tuttle said had greeted her when she arrived at the branch, sent a message complimenting the mother- of-two on her ‘stunning’ appearance.
The 28-year-old showed the message to managers at the branch in Stafford the next day, but that night she received two more messages so returned to the bank again to complain. HSBC then offered her £250 as a ‘goodwill gesture’.
Last night, a furious Mrs Tuttle condemned the bank for allowing the unnamed employee to keep his job. The worker messaged Mrs Tuttle after she had called in to notify staff of a change of address and she fears he tracked her down using her confidential data.
The self- employed marketing executive said: ‘It said on his profile that he worked at HSBC and then I recognised him as the person I had spoken to the day before.
‘He said, “You’re really stunning. I think you’re a good- looking woman”. Then he asked if I was OK, with a load of kisses. I didn’t respond to them. I was shocked because I’d never had a proper conversation with him. It is very unprofessional and disturbing. I’d not given him my contact details, he must have used the bank’s information to track me down.’
The worker sent Mrs Tuttle three messages in total, as well as a request to be her Facebook friend.
Former beauty salon worker Mrs Tuttle said she and husband Paul, a 32-year-old engineer, had found the incident ‘very distressing’.
She said: ‘I have reason to return to the bank since this incident and have seen this man still at work. I can’t believe they’ve let him keep his job.’ Mrs Tuttle said she had reported the matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which advised her to close her account – a process she said she can start only once the bank has finished its investigation.
An FOS spokesman said: ‘ We can’t make [the bank] apologise and we don’t have the power to tell a firm what to do about disciplinary issues.’
She also contacted police but officers did not take further action. Staffordshire Police declined to comment.
HSBC said: ‘We have carried out a full internal investigation and are satisfied with the outcome.’