Bank scam

maas

The more you expand on this, the more it comes across as compliant money laundering, with the inevitable "Help me now I've been caught" aftermath.

I dont think this fraud marker will get removed as the police investigation may determine the above.

Pace_maker

maas wrote: »

The more you expand on this, the more it comes across as compliant money laundering, with the inevitable "Help me now I've been caught" aftermath.

I dont think this fraud marker will get removed as the police investigation may determine the above.

His partaking in this was forced, you're just like the rest guilty until proven innocent. I'm still waiting on the fraud department to call, if there's no change my I'll be going to my solicitor, if he believes going to the police is the right thing, then that's what I'll do, until then I'm playing it safe.

maas

Pace_maker wrote: »

His partaking in this was forced, you're just like the rest guilty until proven innocent

You deleted your last post which you said he naively thought it was a quick way to make money. Im only going off what you put here which you are now selectively removing.

colsten

Pace_maker wrote: »

until then I'm playing it safe.

you are knowingly not reporting a crime. That makes you guilty of perverting the course of justice, which is a criminal offence by itself.

SeduLOUs

Nobody is claiming 'guilty until proven innocent', but the 'facts' you are presenting don't seem to add up or have any solid evidence behind them and people are just pointing out that there may be a lot more to this story than you are being led to believe.

Refusing to report it to the police certainly isn't helping your case. I very much doubt the bank is just going to wave you off with £2k missing and leave it be. There's a good chance they will report it to the police themselves. It's going to look very suspicious when the police come knocking on your door that you/your son have sat back and done nothing considering you're claiming he's the victim.

Even if he is completely innocent in all this and everything he did was under duress, refusing to report it will let the criminals know that the pair of you are pushovers and they've already made an easy £2k out of you. Do you really think that will be the end of it?

Besides, if you don't attempt to fix this properly your son will likely not be able to open even a basic bank account for several years. How will he get his student loan paid to him or get a part time job? I hope he doesn't want to ever work for a financial institution as no-one will touch him with a bargepole with fraud markers on his file.

I'm not sure why you are asking a solicitor for advice. The only advice they are going to give you as a victim of a crime is to report it to the police.

grumbler

Pace_maker wrote: »

...I'll be going to my solicitor, if he believes going to the police is the right thing, then that's what I'll do, until then I'm playing it safe.

A solicitor is the last person I would ask for an advice in this situation, although your solicitor might be special.

Pace_maker

maas wrote: »

You deleted your last post which you said he naively thought it was a quick way to make money. Im only going off what you put here which you are now selectively removing.

Well done conveniently picking out what you want to see.

This is what I said:

He had heard of a way to make money for free from a friend. This friend then gave his details to a third party, this is when he suspected , I might have been played, and then cancelled his card, and was then subsequently forced to get a new card issued from the bank, and that's where the trouble started.

Anyway I'm done with these ping pong arguments its getting me nowhere, when most of you keep saying the same thing. I'll post an update in the following weeks when I've actually made some progress.

Until then bye.

Pace_maker

grumbler wrote: »

A solicitor is the last person I would ask for an advice in this situation, although your solicitor might be special.

He is .

grumbler

colsten wrote: »

you are knowingly not reporting a crime. That makes you guilty of perverting the course of justice, which is a criminal offence by itself.

Your link doesn't prove your statement. In fact it proves the opposite:

Perverting the course of justice can be any of three acts:

• Fabricating or disposing of evidence
• Intimidating or threatening a witness or juror
• Intimidating or threatening a judge

SeduLOUs

Pace_maker wrote: »

He had heard of a way to make money for free from a friend. This friend then gave his details to a third party, this is when he suspected , I might have been played, and then cancelled his card, and was then subsequently forced to get a new card issued from the bank, and that's where the trouble started.

This is the point where the police (or at the very least the bank) should have been notified.

They weren't, and your son's actions have allowed a crime to be committed, of which he played a large part.

Your only hope of getting him out of it is to tell the complete truth to the police and hope their investigations corroborate your story that his actions were only performed because he was under threat.

If you continue to do nothing and the bank report to the police it's only going to be harder to prove, and fraud markers on his file and a £2k debt will be the least of your worries.