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Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Over 200 customers of Sampo Bank had a shock in store when they found that they'd been charged money for using various Oulu companies that they'd never used, including the bar Otto K.

The mistake came to light when they looked at their bank statements and found they'd made purchases which they had no memory whatsoever of making.

According to Kaleva, this included 'ghost purchases' at the Oulu bar Otto K which customers either hadn't been to or hadn't been to for a very long time.

Otto K's manager Kimmo Lämsä referred to the mistake as 'sad', claimed it had never occurred before and was generally incredibly apologetic.

Sampo bank's chairman, Hannu Kuoka, claimed that the mistake had somehow occurred because they were drawing on 'old information' from Otto K.

Sampo bank was established in 1887 in Helsinki. It was bought up by Danske Bank, a Danish bank, in 2007. 




Comments (1)
1. 19-01-2009 22:30
Written by lee
lazy bank
I've had bank accounts in 3 different countries, and I also had an account with OP when i first moved here- but I now have a Sampo account. Sampo are one of the worst banks I have dealt with. Poor internet technology (shameful in high tech Oulu!)- lots of these incidents of plain and simple banking error (although i have been lucky and avoided most), and the customer service and general attitude is poor. Very typical in fact, of any formerly state owned monopoly that thinks it just doesn't have to try and customers will merely be loyal. They also don't welcome foreigners, as they would not open an account for me until I had my KELA card. OP just needed a passport from anywhere in the world, and my address here. I had to join Sampo later on, as my joint mortgage with my wife required me to do so (again- why?!). I strangely couldn't sign it as i'm a foreigner (they actually said that), even though they forced me to open an account, I'm a permanent resident with a permanent job, and my name is on the mortgage. My advice to new arrivals here is to avoid Simple Sampo.

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