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Jockeys urged to switch banks
- Updated: October 5, 2016
Jockeys have been urged to move their money out of high street banks after a string of frauds.
The Professional Jockeys Association (PJA) issued the warning in its October newsletter and said that around 30 jockeys and trainers had been targeted by the “fairly rudimentary scam”.
The body said that due to the losses – thought to be a six-figure sum – and “given the ineptitude of the major high street banks in preventing the fraud and their lack of interest in prosecuting it”, the only way to prevent more was to bank away from the high street.
The PJA said the frauds were first reported in early 2014 and were continuing, “with the banks seemingly both unwilling and incapable of preventing or investigating them, and the police and Action Fraud of no use whatsoever”.
The body said money had been withdrawn over the counter, possibly using fraudulent …
