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Joseph Titchfield-Does anyone know of him?

Joseph Titchfield - I'm trying to find information on this guy who has recently conned my father out of a fairly large sum of cash. At one stage he apparently worked for Whittakers Fine Art. From what I can gather, he deals in artwork. Namely getting an investor or investors to put up the cash to buy, and then he locates a buyer and sells at a profit. He seems to come through on a few deals and then just disappears with the cash on the next. The local police seem to be at a loss so I thought I would give this a go.

If anyone does have any details or similar experiences with this chap, I would be most grateful if you could get in touch.


Apoloies to anyone with the same name that this does not concern.

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  • abbecer
    abbecer Posts: 2,177 Forumite
    Sorry can't help you but would like to wish you luckwith your search.

    Rebecca x
  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Google brings up nothing for that name.
    Happy chappy
  • I've spent ages searching on google and come up with nothing. Thanks for trying though.
  • alyth
    alyth Posts: 2,671 Forumite
    Have you contacted your local trading standards to see whether anyone has contacted them about him? might be worth contacting them, I've never been in touch with them but maybe they have a national database that they can match him to. Otherwise, perhaps contacting Times/Telegraph/Mail on Sunday/Guardian and seeing whether there have been other complaints in their financial pages about him? Good luck, and my best wishes to your father, sounds horrific for him.
  • furndire
    furndire Posts: 7,308 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Good luck, I hope you find the ********.
  • derrick
    derrick Posts: 7,424 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Have you tried THIS , click on the "people" button and enter name and location
    Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition


  • Darksun
    Darksun Posts: 1,931 Forumite
    In all likelyhood, if he's a conman he'll be using a false identity.
  • Eupho
    Eupho Posts: 1,259 Forumite
    derrick wrote:
    Have you tried THIS , click on the "people" button and enter name and location


    Whoa thats scary.. I had myself *hidden* I thought on the electrol roll AGES ago. But I put my name in and all my info came up.

    It says you can click to remove yourself. But it asks for my mobile number and my email addy.. which I know they DONT have. Do you think thats a scam to GET those extra details?
    Very proud of trying to deal with my debts. LBM 04/09
    :T
    [STRIKE]£34.217[/STRIKE] ~ 05/09. £33.817~ 06/09
    to [STRIKE]13 [/STRIKE] 12 creditors. Doing my own DMP. :dance:
    DMP mutual support member 309. NSD 12/12
  • derrick
    derrick Posts: 7,424 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Eupho wrote:
    Whoa thats scary.. I had myself *hidden* I thought on the electrol roll AGES ago. But I put my name in and all my info came up.

    It says you can click to remove yourself. But it asks for my mobile number and my email addy.. which I know they DONT have. Do you think thats a scam to GET those extra details?

    No, I had myself removed , don't think I gave a mobile number,(you could always make one up if they insist), but they will need th e-mail for them to inform you of the deletion, which they did with me about 20 minutes later, never heard from them since.
    Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition


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