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Advice required on possible scam
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I think there's a reason his real name is hard to come by...a couple months back (after I bought the tickets...had I known this I never would have gone there) he made the mistake of telling me the reason he moved from London to Leeds was he was in trouble with the law. He also told me around the same time that he was selling CS gas.0
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*bump* just to try and get a couple more opinions and see if any legal people can help out0
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*bump* just to try and get a couple more opinions and see if any legal people can help out
People on this site can't give you legal advice - if you want legal advice you will have to go to a solicitor, you may be able to get a free introductory session but I don't really know much about solicitors.
But to be honest, you transferred money to a man you had only met once, don't know his real name or any of his details, the only thing you know about him was that he had problems with the law and that he was selling something classified in the UK as a "firearm". I don't rate your chance of getting your money back
. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
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Have a look at action fraud on the net, might be able to offer some advice.First DMP payment 10/06/13
Debt Free approx Jan 2018
Starting debt: £50,013 :eek::eek:
Current debt £39,128.41
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I don't think the police will help, but it certainly is a scam and I wonder how many other people have been 'done'.
Maybe be worth contacting police and trading standards just to see, sometimes if they have a lot of complaints about one particular type of scam they will investigate. You didn't ask him, he contacted you, which makes me say scam rather than your being naive. He should be traceable via the receiving bank account if the authorities can get evidence.
Good luck, maybe you won't get anything back, but you might have saved someone else getting caught.Debt -it's a fight that I'm winning, dealing with debt one day at a time.
Estimated DFD August 2018 - 2031 - now 2027 :T
Guide dog Tess, missing Scotland 2 years
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Personally, I'd send him a message saying if you don't have your money back within seven days, you are going to report the whole thing to his local police as fraud.
If he's an amateur, he'll be scared witless and send the money. If he's a regular at this sort of thing, he'll ignore you. Then you know what you are dealing with."There are not enough superlatives in the English language to describe a 'Princess Coronation' locomotive in full cry. We shall never see their like again". O S Nock0 -
Do you have a friend/relative who could contact him with a view to booking him for a set at a large club?.
I would guess that he would jump at the chance & your friend/relative would then have his real name & address to pass on to you.Never Knowingly Understood.
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