Santander Worker’s Passport Fraud

Wednesday, 16th December 2020 at 10:40am

The Birmingham Live website reports that a Santander employee scanned bogus passports and photocopied documents in a bid to help others fleece customers.

Amila Haputantridge was employed in a customer-facing role and his job involved a high degree of trust, dealing with customers’ personal details and bank accounts.

The bank had a system to validate the identity of customers using a scanner and on two occasions Haputantridge was given two false passports in the names of two Chinese individuals by customers attending the bank and scanned them, matching them to genuine customer identity codes.

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