Investment Case Studies

For Global Money Week 2026 we'd like to highlight some of the scams and attempts to defraud that factor in some of the complaints we receive:

Victim loses €40,000 to online currency trading scam and continues to invest despite bank's warning
Victim of investment fraud believed bank could have done more to prevent it
Laura requested recall of over €17,000 sent to an unregulated investment company
Tom loses €60,000 to fraudulent investment company
Customer invests life savings in fraudulent investment company
David lost €22,000 in scam by a fraudulent investment company

The FSPO publishes case studies on a regular basis which can help to inform consumers and financial service providers and pension providers of the kind of complaints that come to us and their outcomes.

These case studies are available in the following publications:

Overview of Complaints
Ombudsman's Digest of Legally Binding Decisions