YOU HAVE YOUR SAY

EVERY week, Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails about our stories. Here are some from our report on Gideon Roseman, a barrister who turned the tables on fraudsters by tracking down the £20,400 he lost in a banking scam…

HERO WHO TRACKED BANK FRAUDSTERS TO WIN BACK £20K THEY STOLE Money Mail, August 9, 2017

BANKS should be held responsible under law in bank transfer cases unless they can prove the customer has been negligent. They are giving bank accounts to the criminals in the first place. Automatically blaming the customer is another example of the cavalier attitude of our banks. The crooks messed with the wrong man. Good for him. In my experience with builders, though, never pay a builder up front; pay in stages as the work is completed. I HAVE never understood how the banks can’t spot when fraudsters try to open accounts. All of them say they spend millions on combatting fraud but then you hear about cases like this. They should at least check to see if someone is a con-artist. GReAT story Money Mail. I would personally find having to deal with the courts and finding evidence a nightmare. If I were Gideon I would dedicate my whole time to helping normal people get their money back. Someone needs to. WHILE this man has clearly done astonishingly well, I cannot agree with people who say the banks are purely to blame. Many people have trouble accepting responsibility for their own actions. ThIS is why I prefer to pay in cash, face-to-face. More people are being scammed now because too many are stuck behind a keyboard. IF IT takes three to five days for a cheque to clear, why can’t banks apply the same principle to bank transfers? If banks agreed not to transfer the money until 48 hours after it was authorised, a lot of frauds would never happen. GOOD on Gideon and even better for informing the public as to how he did this. Something needs to be done to stop these swines.