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Dan whitworth is a reporter covering this for money box on radio 4 and he told us more about this scam. it started like many of the investigations we do here with an e—mailfrom one of our investigations we do here with an e—mail from one of our listeners, adam. that is james s son. he e—mailed a couple of weeks ago and explained what had happened to his father. in short what had happened was this. over the course of 13 months, criminals had scams and then stolen £153,000 from james, the v...

With ukraines contribution nearing 10%. a fraud victim has been reimbursed over £150,000 by his bank following a bbc investigation. james was targeted by a us—based scammer who claimed she was in an abusive relationship and tricked him into giving them money. his bank initially declined to cover him because the criminal used an american account, until radio 4s money box programme intervened. dan whitworth is a reporter covering this for money box on radio 4 and he told us more about this scam...

Enemy of the enemy is my friend? how does that work? >> the biggest mistake is when mohammed died without a succession plan, right? this is a major development. >> yes, i would say it would be. emily, you were nodding. >> it is important for listeners and viewers to understand and appreciate that part of the global conversation about international law is the option for countries the buy out and just simply say i dont subscribe to this. you have no jurisdictions over me. the united states is one ...

Understand, has said he will abide by the guidelines. however, these are guidelines that the bbc itself says are grey and have grey areas, people will be watching what gary lineker tweets in the weeks to come and months to come, very carefully. david, thank you very much, david sillito. 0ur sports editor, dan roan, joins us from salford. dan, this whole row has been hugely disruptive for bbc sport and viewers and listeners as well. thats right, ben, a definite sense of relief here at bbc sport h...

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Traditional bank would not support? its just traditional bank would not support? itsjust different, and traditional bank would not support? its just different, and actually even within the sector is very different when we look at digital start—ups over to biotech, from our point of view, we are a revenue generating company and after some years while we get our technology through trials, and so as many of your listeners will know, we raise money from venture capital, private equity, and we are ...

They have, until 72 hours ago, had a fantastic reputation of understanding the nuances in the start—up community, which are different to established companies. they are very well positioned to help with our sector, and ensure that we were looked after correctly. so, when you say nuances with the sector, does that imply that there is more risk in the tech sector, that a traditional bank wouldn�*t support? it is just different and even within the sector it is very different, when we look at di...

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Trust? it is so important. iwas in ukraine last _ trust? it is so important. iwas in ukraine last year _ trust? it is so important. iwas in ukraine last year and _ trust? it is so important. iwas in ukraine last year and obviously, | ukraine last year and obviously, people had a lot of german speaking to them and when you said you were from the bbc they said great, and they trusted you not to twist things. lots of countries do not have a media that can say what they want and they can report free...