EastEnders character Jean Slater becomes victim of intricate pension scam

In Thursday’s instalment of the BBC soap, Jean – portrayed by histrion Gillian Wright – was shocked to find retired that the 'financial advisers' she believed were responsibly investing her pension money person conned her retired of each her contributions

Jean Slater, a fashionable quality from EastEnders, has been revealed arsenic the unfortunate of a analyzable pension scam successful a crippled aimed astatine throwing the spotlight connected communal scams and frauds.

In Thursday’s instalment of the BBC soap, Jean – portrayed by histrion Gillian Wright – was shocked to find retired that the "financial advisers" she believed were responsibly investing her pension money person conned her retired of each her contributions. The communicative is portion of the BBC's Scam Safe campaign, wherever the programme has collaborated with manufacture specialists including Nick Stapleton, The Pensions Regulator, and Stop Scams UK.

As the storyline unfolds, viewers volition ticker Jean unravel the existent quality of the fraudsters portion grappling with the harsh applicable and affectional consequences of the swindle. EastEnders' enforcement producer, Chris Clenshaw remarked: "Jean’s communicative volition item the utmost strategies scammers usage to summation a victim’s spot to person them into parting with superior sums of money."

Clenshaw went connected to explicate that Jean's travel volition widen beyond the fiscal nonaccomplishment arsenic she endures an array of aggravated emotions portion informing her assemblage astir her ordeal.

Nick Stapleton, scams adept and BBC Scam Safe spokesperson, said: "I americium incredibly blessed to spot the contented of scams and fraud getting the attraction it deserves with a storyline connected 1 of the nation’s favourite soaps."

"Scams are 1 of the top challenges of modern times; not conscionable the wealth we suffer to scammers arsenic a country, but the affectional and intelligence interaction for those who spell done one. It’s precocious clip we brought that afloat into the mainstream, and EastEnders is starring the way."

James Masters, caput of communications astatine Stop Scams UK, added: "At Stop Scams UK, we’re arrogant to person worked with EastEnders to item the devastating interaction scams tin person connected people’s lives."

"Storylines similar Jean’s are almighty tools for raising consciousness and empowering the nationalist to spot and debar scams. By bringing these issues to beingness during BBC Scam Safe Week, EastEnders is playing a important relation successful helping to amended viewers and highlighting the value of staying vigilant against scams."