{"id":24244,"date":"2026-08-04T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/metro-bank-customer-fights-for-14000-refund-after-ai-linked-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:37:17","slug":"metro-bank-customer-fights-for-14000-refund-after-ai-linked-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/metro-bank-customer-fights-for-14000-refund-after-ai-linked-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Bank customer fights for \u00a314,000 refund after AI-linked fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot<\/p>\n<p>A Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than \u00a314,000 back after its systems failed to stop\u00a0a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.<\/p>\n<p>Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of \u00a314,244 taken from his bank account. The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/aug\/04\/metro-bank-refund-ai-fraud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6c7873490cf4f46df61186b00b7a8683dd0fff34\/953_34_6542_5236\/master\/6542.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3cec91e0b1714b75e4f67fa4b786b7f1\" title=\"Metro Bank customer fights for \u00a314,000 refund after AI-linked fraud\" \/>Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot<br \/>\nA Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than \u00a314,000 back after its systems failed to stop\u00a0a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.<br \/>\nZoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of \u00a314,244 taken from his bank account. The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot A Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than \u00a314,000 back after its systems failed to stop\u00a0a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude. Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/metro-bank-customer-fights-for-14000-refund-after-ai-linked-fraud\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metro Bank customer fights for \u00a314,000 refund after AI-linked fraud<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}