The couple had no idea they had been tricked until they arrived at the airline check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport and were told they had fake tickets.<\/p>\n
Shashikala said: “We were shocked when we found out they were scam tickets. We were at the airport ready to go.<\/p>\n
“I just started panicking and my husband was very stressed.”<\/p>\n
The couple made the journey back to Leicester after declining to buy tickets for the same flight at a cost of \u00a35,000 each.<\/p>\n
The scam was reported to Report Fraud and Santander – but they were told it was unlikely their money would be recovered.<\/p>\n
Shashikala said: “The bank said it was our fault because we transferred the money.”<\/p>\n
Their son, Asit Jansari, said he appealed to the financial watchdog, which prompted the bank to revisit the payment, and as a result it had reimbursed the full amount.<\/p>\n
“It was the Financial Ombudsman that dealt with matter. It contacted the bank,” Asit said.<\/p>\n
“Within a week I got a call from the branch manager to say the transfer would be looked into again.”<\/p>\n
He said a few days later the bank concluded his parents had been scammed and the money would be repaid, adding the process was “a struggle”.<\/p>\n
Shashikala said: “We never thought we would get the money back. People heard my story and in the end it was a happy ending.<\/p>\n
“We are really happy and really grateful to all the people who helped us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple had no idea they had been tricked until they arrived at the airline check-in desk at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-501557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}