over a year ago my dad had one of his accounts cleaned out, took over 30k, the account was a saving account and only had a pass book so no cards/cheque book etc

the only way they'd even know the account excisted was if they had access to the banks personal account details. anyways turns out someone walked into a branch in leicester and cleaned the account out (without a book!)
bank investigated it to make sure it wasnt my dad pulling a scam, and they return the money shortly after.

some weeks later my dad gets a call from a loan company checking to see if he'd applied for a loan on a car, my dad had no idea of this, the guy at the finance company said he has a copy of my dads passport and driving licence (my dad has a paper licence!) they sent a copy of it to us and the picture on the passport and licence is of an asian guy!

police fraud squad have delt with it and we havent had any issues since, although the other day i got a letter saying i won the spanish lotto funny thing is the guys taken all that time to print it out (inkject printer you can tell) and post it from spain (even used a stamp ) why didnt he just email me it, would of saved him money and hassle and it would of gine stright to my junk bin lol