{"id":121020,"date":"2023-10-29T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=121020"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:39:39","slug":"strip-club-visits-leave-two-men-thousands-out-of-pocket-but-bank-refunds-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/world-news\/strip-club-visits-leave-two-men-thousands-out-of-pocket-but-bank-refunds-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Strip club visits leave two men thousands out of pocket \u2013 but bank refunds them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banks were ordered to \u00adrefund thousands of pounds to two men whose accounts were raided when their drinks were spiked.<\/p>\n

The separate incidents \u2013 both at strip clubs \u2013 saw the men wake up to find scammers had cleaned out their accounts. When they contacted the banks to say what had happened, officials told them it was tough luck as their PIN numbers had been used to make the payments.<\/p>\n

But both men appealed to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) who ruled in favour of the unfortunate fellas and ordered the bank to pay back the missing cash. In the first case a man \u2013 identified only as Mr M \u2013 went to a club in Spain where he paid for \u201cservices\u201d at the club for him and a friend costing \u00a31,300.<\/p>\n

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But he said that when he returned home later, he found more than \u00a35,000 extra had vanished from his account. He claimed his drink was spiked and he was left \u201cdazed and confused\u201d and that staff at the venue must have seen him enter his PIN.<\/p>\n

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A ruling by the FOS said the bank, Cashplus, should have done more to check the extra payments were valid. It ordered the bank to pay back the missing \u00a35,500 from Mr M\u2019s account and pay him another \u00a3150 to make up for his distress and inconvenience.<\/p>\n

In the second case a visitor to an adult club \u2013 who was identified only as Mr H \u2013 says he was given a \u201cfree shot\u201d of booze which left him feeling \u201cstrange and euphoric\u201d. He was then ushered into a private room where he was pressured to make a purchase using his bank card and was separated from his friends who he had gone out with.<\/p>\n

At one point during the evening he sent his pals a desperate text message plea saying he was being held prisoner at the club and asking for help. Local police were called to try to find Mr H, who was eventually found hours later in the streets near the club.<\/p>\n

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