How bank's failure to spot missing hyphen helped fraudster

Verifying the little hyphen difference, plus a postal address, and date of birth would have alerted the bank that the imposter was not the owner. [iStockphoto]

At the time of his death, a British naval officer who also represented Kenya in sailing in the 1960 Olympic Games wrote his name as Williams Bentley-Buckle, with a hyphen.

However, years after, a daring imposter approached Suntra Investment Bank armed with a document featuring a passport with a name Anthony William Bentley Buckle.