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image captionThe bank is not liable for paying £700,000 back to the couple
A bank does not need to compensate a customer who was duped into paying £700,000 to fraudsters, a judge ruled.
Fiona Philipp used her Barclays account to transfer two payments of £400,000 and £300,000 to accounts in the United Arab Emirates.
She and her doctor husband thought they were helping a high-profile fraud investigation being run by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The bank said the customer had made the payments willingly.
The scam started when her husband was called by a man who claimed to work for the FCA.