This reminds me of "identity theft".

Someone didn't steal my identity, someone stole from the bank using my identity. It should really be called "bank fraud".

A great sketch about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

New to me, but it was suggestive somehow of Mitchell and Web before watching it.

Weird how i just assumed this would be Michell & Webb. I've not seen much of there stuff, but it just felt like it was going to be skit of theres

Perhaps we should let them know they're too predictable! (Ross Anderson rightly ranted on the topic somewhere.)

That term is a brilliant way to redirect blame from the bank/government to you, kudos to whomever coined it.

Unless you are being sued by the bank as the one who stole the money and this happens in another country and the time to claim your innocence is out. Then it’s you who suffers the fraud, not the bank :/ (talking from personal experience of a close friend)

Yes, I had something similar happening. Did your friend get anything paid out? It's still hurting me while it happened many years ago.

Unfortunately, my friend is not able to enter the said country where he once was a resident anymore. Without spending tens of thousands dollars without clear promise of success it seems impossible to resolve this. Perhaps after some long time the debt to bank is cleared. In reality, it is actually the bank that should be sued for all this – they haven’t checked identity properly before giving out loans worth of tens of thousands $. It is not impossible that the bank employee is part of this. I am talking about the state of Israel, btw.

The summary is: fraudster with fake ID featuring real data of my friend but fake photo managed to get loans and credit cards from several banks/companies. Since my friend lef the country, he was not getting any of the post. After years these orgs opened collection cases against my friend. Since he was not in the country, the courts have judged him as debt-evader and allowed collection agency to act against him.

Yeah, I had something similar happen to me with a Swiss bank :( No loans they just emptied out my accounts and stock portfolio (I had lots of FAANG stock)

It’s worth holding them to account - make a constructive complaint here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint

Done. I've found are usually quite responsive to these if you make a good case.

Contrast the BBC headline with Reuters’ ”Cyber attack on EasyJet gets details of 9 million customers”. I love the BBC content but the news output seems to be far too focused on number of eyeballs than “facts”/accuracy. I find it infuriating.

The guardian has a much better title: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/19/easyjet-cyb...