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Ive got an issue and just needed some clarification please. I received money in my account yesterday for around £20k. It was from someone that ive known for a few years, hes a few years older and we refer to him as uncle john out of respect. He seems like a normal person and ive never really had an issue. Hes borrowd money from me over the years and in actual reality he probably owes me around 40k! but he promised to pay me off yesterday. When yesterday arrived, as you can imagine i was very nervous, my family and I are actually going on Holiday today but thats on hold ll of a sudden and ill explain why. Yesterday, to my suprised, john rings me and says he will tranfser me all my money to me, and i was like great. He put money in, i was in leicester at the time where my wifes family live, and when it came i was pleasantly surprised. i checked at the cash point he has only put in around £5000, he said he will put more in throughout the day, while me and my wife were out we changed the money to euros since we were out and got it out the way. theres 20 of us going today so 20k was perfect. as we were out he put all the money in and we just changed it as we were getting around in the city centre to suros and left it. Today i tried using my card and it declined. i even tried extracting money and even using my online banking, which was all suspended according to the message. I called the bank, and ive got to say, especially since ive been with them for years, they were really cold. after a lengthy verification process they talked about how payments into my account are fradulent and the person sending the money has not authorised it. straight away i said this cant be possible, they just advised i go into branch and bring proof of entitilement or something like that and they cannot help.
What is going on here? all my money is in my account and i cant access it, plus i can no longer get hold of John, amd i feel like the bank maybe right. I may have just been victim to fraud, its worried me and im not even sure about the holiday... please help, what should i do next
Ive got an issue and just needed some clarification please. I received money in my account yesterday for around £20k. It was from someone that ive known for a few years, hes a few years older and we refer to him as uncle john out of respect. He seems like a normal person and ive never really had an issue. Hes borrowd money from me over the years and in actual reality he probably owes me around 40k! but he promised to pay me off yesterday. When yesterday arrived, as you can imagine i was very nervous, my family and I are actually going on Holiday today but thats on hold ll of a sudden and ill explain why. Yesterday, to my suprised, john rings me and says he will tranfser me all my money to me, and i was like great. He put money in, i was in leicester at the time where my wifes family live, and when it came i was pleasantly surprised. i checked at the cash point he has only put in around £5000, he said he will put more in throughout the day, while me and my wife were out we changed the money to euros since we were out and got it out the way. theres 20 of us going today so 20k was perfect. as we were out he put all the money in and we just changed it as we were getting around in the city centre to suros and left it. Today i tried using my card and it declined. i even tried extracting money and even using my online banking, which was all suspended according to the message. I called the bank, and ive got to say, especially since ive been with them for years, they were really cold. after a lengthy verification process they talked about how payments into my account are fradulent and the person sending the money has not authorised it. straight away i said this cant be possible, they just advised i go into branch and bring proof of entitilement or something like that and they cannot help.
What is going on here? all my money is in my account and i cant access it, plus i can no longer get hold of John, amd i feel like the bank maybe right. I may have just been victim to fraud, its worried me and im not even sure about the holiday... please help, what should i do next
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