Your Bank is being used by fraudsters

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Thanks for confirmation Beth.

Triffid, all institutions with a UK banking licence are bound by legislation (h/t @anon44204028). The post is about GDPR but the links cover KYC/AML:

Various Security/Safety/Privacy questions

it will NOT be deleted SOON after, they are required by LAW to retain it for YEARS. Here, thanks to SimonB, is the low down on this: Financial law and regulation mandates that we must store your data for 5-6 years after closing your account. For PII (personally identifiable information), this is 5 years. The legislation that underpins this is the EU 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive enacted on 25th June 2015, which member states (of which the UK is still one) had to be compliant with by 2…