Strip club scam

sentientpoet

Burnz0 wrote: »

the only issue with that is that they've only actually managed to put through 2 charges out of an attempted 7 or 8 so that would suggest that even if the ones that did go through were a decimal point issue, the other times that failed must have meant I got free drinks- which seems very unlikely.... At the end of the day I really don't know as I remember very little (which is in no way unusual for me even after only a few drinks) so everything I say is purely guesswork. All I can say is that it is very possible that my card was out of my possession, the failed & successful transaction history suggests someone (me or otherwise) was ringing through massive transactions one after the other for different amounts, therefore presumably different things e.g. a champagne bottle, then another type 5 minutes later etc. This is the thing I'd expect they'll need to justify - ignoring the two that went through, what were the failed attempts for? If they were genuine mistakes by the barman (unlikely) then is it possibly he genuinely put through the two that did go through incorrectly? When I spoke to ActionnFraud they were very insistent that it sounded very dodgy but also said my bank is the first port of call and if they fail to pay up/cancel the transactions going down the police route will take much longer. I did think the club should be able to provide cctv of every transaction since it was all time recorded but it wouldn't surprise me if they'd rather not show footage of an obviously drunk person fumbling through his pockets trying to pay £3000 for a beer (if that's how it happened!)

Agreed it does sound like a different scenario, but you might have some luck querying the payments with the club - one would think they should at least be able to trace back what the payments were for from the till receipts. That also gives them a chance to make good by being able to admit it was an inadvertent error - which if nothing else might get some of the money back.

Poppops

Banks can do something about it if they want to. I think the transactions themselves should have been a red flag.

My son went with his friends to Ibiza earlier this year and rang home to ask if I could help his friend who had got himself in a pickle and who doesn't really have anyone of his own to help.

They had been in a nightclub and friend had been using his card to buy drinks. All seemed ok, he had receipts for the drinks he had bought. He goes to get cash the next day and his account had been wiped out. There had been two additional transactions for over £500 each put through.

He rang his bank and asked if I could talk on his behalf, setting up a password which he obviously then gave to me. At first the bank said there was nothing they could do as the transactions were chip and pin. However they then said he should ring the police, get a crime number (maybe not the correct terminology) and agreed not to pay the dubious amounts. The police in Ibiza told the lads under no circumstances should they contact or go back to the club, and said they would contact the owner and tell him that if he wanted the cash he would need to prove it was owed to him.

Money was refunded and nothing was ever heard from the club again.

OP don't beat yourself up. You may have to write it off to experience but we all do daft things at times

Burnz0

I appreciate the sympathetic words and if it was just one transaction, on one card I'd probably just forget it/put it down to a bad experience. The fact is my current financial situation is that I can't really afford to be without £2k+ at the moment (on top of the amount of money I consciously spent) and so im inclined to fight it. Whether it was a decimal point or some error, me using the card or someone else that had temporarily acquired my card, the fact remains that the transaction history has to look incredibly dodgy. If they'd not been so greedy or put through the same amount im sure it'd be more plausible... sure, or I hope!

planteria

Burnz0 wrote: »

I definitely did pay for a private dance but no way would I have agreed to pay that sort of money. I checked their website today - apparently it's £4.50 a beer. I had £200ish in cash with me so I'd think that would have covered me for a few dances and a few beers at least. My friend says when he clocked the £3000 on the till and said to me why are you paying that much - I said there's no way im paying that and the barman sheepishly cancelled the transaction (and I have the receipt evidence to prove it). It seems like he probably already tried that successfully without me noticing...

it does. i read this thread as genuine. he had clocked you were 'not on form' and has fleeced you. i would be tackling it through your bank, and getting your story as clear in your own mind as possible. and tackling it 'directly' with the establishment, and people, involved too.

bluelass

If I was you I would mention this clubs name on here. It might save some other poor sap from getting robbed.

[Deleted User]

Far too many similarities to the other threads about Strip Clubs. Also far too many responses from the OP.

Suspicious I am.

planteria

of what? in what way could Burnz0 benefit from making this up? to my mind..the main thing he does is make himself look a right berk. but i can sympathise with that, along with the fact that he has been stolen from:)

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planteria wrote: »

of what?

Far too many similar threads.

bluelass wrote: »

If I was you I would mention this clubs name on here. It might save some other poor sap from getting robbed.

Any strip club in any town.

Burnz0

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Far too many similar threads.

Any strip club in any town.

Me thinks you need to make a stronger case for what you are insinuating as you seem to be acknowledging that this thing that I must be making up actually happens a lot? I struggle to see what I could possibly gain from fabricating the story and also what significance the number of times ive replied has - unless you'd be less suspicious if I just posted and then never responded??

stator

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Far too many similarities to the other threads about Strip Clubs. Also far too many responses from the OP.

Suspicious I am.

Why? Who cares? If you don't like this thread, don't post. The paranoid see trolls everywhere. I prefer to act in good faith, if I make a post in a thread that is fake I'm no worse off and I don't care, so why get worked up?