Help Needed! Vouchers Were Stolen in Tesco

JAG

smallblueplanet wrote: »

If the person who spent the vouchers had stuff delivered to an address, won't it be easy to trace them?

Yes they could be traced but the Police won't be interested.

If they won't investigate all the Play.com frauds which must run into the thousands of pounds where the stuff is being sent to an address, and all it would take would be the Police to visit the adresses in question, then for £51 you haven't got a chance.

Play.com fraud thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1531695

jenniewb

JAG wrote: »

Yes they could be traced but the Police won't be interested.

If they won't investigate all the Play.com frauds which must run into the thousands of pounds where the stuff is being sent to an address, and all it would take would be the Police to visit the adresses in question, then for £51 you haven't got a chance.

Play.com fraud thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1531695

The reason the police are not interested is because either Play or the persons Bank do not press charges.

The police told me this when £450 walked out of my bank account for someone buying on Net-A-Porter.com Obviously delivered to someone. I had to go to the polcie station to report it. The policeman told me I would get my money back by the bank who would not be pushing for charges on the person who stole the money, why? because it was too low to get their radar. I said I wanted to press charges, but the policemane said as the bank would refund the money, I would no longer have been stolen from and it was not my case to raise.

Its not because the police are not interested.

JAG

jenniewb wrote: »

Its not because the police are not interested.

I could have conveyed it better :doh:

But I meant that they are not insterested because the banks have to put the case to them to investigate the frauds and they won't bother unless it amounts to a siginficant value.

The same with Tesco who won't bother for £51 worth of Clubcard vouchers in the OP case.

dawn27

I had my mobile stolen from my coat pocket while shopping in Tescos earlier in the year.

A random woman started talking to me in the aisle and i thought she was just lonely, so i started chatting to her.

My phone was in my coat pocket with the button fastened, i didn't realise until i got to the till and looked for it. The woman was very good as i didn't feel a thing.

The security guy (tesco employee) said he would look at the cctv and get a picture of the woman, but when i went in a few days later he didn't even remember me or the incident.

So please be careful when shopping and dont put anything of value on your trolley or in outside pockets and keep an eye on your bag.