Originally Posted by
Dave+63
They would Rob, it happened to me late last year.
A hacker hacked a customers’s account and transferred £9k into my account then phoned me pretending to be my customer, asking me to transfer it back (to a different account - you don’t actually see the account details of transfers in to your account, just a reference).
Having realised it was a fraud, I contacted the bank who told me to wait until the customer’s bank requested it back. When the request was made (about a month later), my account was frozen for the best part of a week until the money was removed from my account by my bank’s anti fraud team and returned to my customer’s bank.
My customer has been re-credited the money almost immediately by his bank.
So in this instance, if the watches were paid for in a similar way, I’ve no doubt that the payment would be reclaimed by the paying bank.