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Ripped off - what can I do (if anything)?
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Is there any proof that a crime has been commited?
What proof would you need?
We have the Facebook messages where he offers a ticket, son agrees to buy, he sends his bank account details. We have proof that £105 was transferred from son's bank account to the bank account given by the guy. Guy said (in Facebook message) that tickets had been sent SD (The £5 was to pay for the agreed special delivery). No tracking details have been given. Two Facebook accounts have been blocked when asked where the tickets are. No request has been made for the balance of £100. No tickets have been received.
I would say that the £105 has been stolen as it was given in anticipation of the receipt of a ticket that never came and all attempts to discover why it wasn't received have been met with a brick wall.
Here's a body, prove that a crime has been committed."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
Action fraud is the way fraud is reported these days. Even if the officer sat down with you and did it for you, it would only be inputting the details that you could have done yourself.
If actionfraud get anywhere and secure any sort of conviction then you can take civil action to get your money back.
Will they actually investigate?"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
What proof did this guy's victims need for the police to investigate?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/football-ticket-conman-amrik-gill-801301
"Payment was made by the victims for the tickets which were never sent."
He did exactly the same thing as what has happened to my son."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
If you get his address right, or get a working phone number, petty revenge says sign him up for every bit of junk mail and scam caller list you can find.0
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I have just reported it all on Action Fraud. I expect this is small potatoes to them but theft is theft. Or is it?"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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What proof would you need?
We have the Facebook messages where he offers a ticket, son agrees to buy, he sends his bank account details. We have proof that £105 was transferred from son's bank account to the bank account given by the guy. Guy said (in Facebook message) that tickets had been sent SD (The £5 was to pay for the agreed special delivery). No tracking details have been given. Two Facebook accounts have been blocked when asked where the tickets are. No request has been made for the balance of £100. No tickets have been received.
I would say that the £105 has been stolen as it was given in anticipation of the receipt of a ticket that never came and all attempts to discover why it wasn't received have been met with a brick wall.
Here's a body, prove that a crime has been committed.
Non delivery of purchased goods would be a civil matter though, which is what I suspect the police will claim. You would have to prove that he intentionally defrauded your son.0 -
befriend some of his facebook friends before you request him as an alias.
i am more likely to accept someone i dont know if we have mutual friends
hope your son gets his money back - hate thieves0 -
Non delivery of purchased goods would be a civil matter though, which is what I suspect the police will claim. You would have to prove that he intentionally defrauded your son.
Surely blocking him on Facebook without supplying the tracking details, not requesting the balance and the ticket not arriving show intention to defraud?
If not, what would?
*Actually, how do you unintentionally defraud someone?"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
befriend some of his facebook friends before you request him as an alias.
i am more likely to accept someone i dont know if we have mutual friends
hope your son gets his money back - hate thieves
Even if I did become his friend, I expect as soon as he worked out who I was, he'd block me as well."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
I would go back to the reading festival facebook page and see if anyone else has posted about being scammed by him, normally when people do this they do it to several people, others may have posted on there warning or asking.
WIll take a while to go through all the posts. Can you PM me the link to his FB? I will have a look at my database for his address0
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