Tesco Bank Gives £25 Handouts as ‘Gesture’ for Stolen Customer Funds
UK bank Tesco Bank has suspended online payments after funds disappeared from 20 thousand accounts, while customers report being offered ‘goodwill gestures’ worth just £25. Tesco Bank: Accounts Blocked As ‘Precaution’. Tesco Bank, owned by the UK’s largest supermarket chain of the same name, has so far not given details about the thefts, which occurred....
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