The drama of fraud victims who can't recover their money: "The bank told me it was my fault"
Bank scams leave millionaire losses and customers who lament feeling unprotected by their entities
Laura Marchena took out a loan from a bank, only to discover she would have to spend 12 years paying back €26,000 she never actually received. A person claiming to be a bank employee told her that someone in Albacete was trying to take out a loan in her name, and to prevent this, she needed to take out the loan herself and then return it to the bank. The person then apparently emptied her account. Laura Marchena is using a pseudonym to tell her story.
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