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Help I have been ripped off by a scam on gumtree

r8chie · 2009-06-22 14:07:16

Hi all, any kinda constructive help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I was looking to purchase festival tickets and found an add posted on the Gumtree website. One ticket for sale for £180. The face value of the ticket is £155, I thought this was pretty reasonable for the sold out event. I contacted the supplier via…

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mrs_drudge Posts: 66 Forumite

24 June 2009 at 8:28PM

'The Police should help - call them again. This is fraud by misrepresentation - and as it is not anything to do with cheque or credit card fraud (which is now initially dealt with by the banks) then they should take details and investigate.

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