Tuesday, July 10, 2001

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The dangers of boozing and online banking Cahoot: sometimes rather 'out-of-focus' after a night on the town

Online bank Cahoot has highlighted the dangers of boozing and then banking from the comfort of home.
It says that more than 1,000 customers a day log on after midnight - with "numerous" cases of people later regretting their alcohol-fuelled transactions.
"There have been instances when our helpline has recorded sheepish calls from people who carried out late night transactions while under the influence of alcohol," said Tim Sawyer, the business development director at the online bank.
"They wake up in the morning and find they've forgotten what transactions they carried out," he added.

Tipsy transactions
One 29-year-old man from Manchester admitted to Cahoot that after a night out on the town he enjoyed buying items online - usually CDs and books.
"It can mean it's quite a shock when I check my statements online, or of course, when the things arrive," he said.
Another 27-year-old from London said he once "shuffled a whole load of money around" from his current account to savings accounts in error.
"When I next went to check my balance I'd forgotten all about it and thought I'd completely overspent," he said.
One customer contacted the Cahoot call centre at 3am from a London nightclub, after his credit card had been declined.
He claimed the incident, in front of Japanese clients, could lose him a lucrative £100m contract and demanded £50,000 be put in his account immediately.
He claimed to have been a company director for nine years, but call centre records showed him to be 22-years-old. Not surprisingly his request was declined. The call centre survey for Abbey National also showed that most of Cahoot's customers are aged 25 to 44, with about a third being female.
The number of pensioners, or so-called 'grey surfers', had also doubled in the past few months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1291000/1291313.stm

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