Bank manager ‘unfairly’ sacked for transferring $37k to fraudster

Kylie Smith, the Nambour branch manager, was sacked on May 8 last year for transferring the money to the scammer’s Commonwealth Bank account a month earlier, on April Fools day.Only $7500 was recovered by the Bank of Queensland.She said at the time she made the mistake the Nambour branch was experiencing the peak impact of Covid-19, with their “older customer base which does not like to do online banking” coming to “withdraw large amounts of cash ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 because they…



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