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Grandmother basically robbed by lying company

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  • Spicy_McHaggis
    Spicy_McHaggis Posts: 1,314 Forumite
    Collabora wrote: »
    ActionFraud is the police

    Not exactly, it's a national call centre. Who collect information about fraud, if you score enough points it's gets a police investigation. If you put in a call for service to the police it gets recorded as a crime and investigated straight away.

    If you think it's civil and not a police matter then why did you suggest actionfraud do their job? I put it to you you're ignorant of the facts.
  • ConsumerGuy0016
    ConsumerGuy0016 Posts: 235 Forumite
    Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »
    If you put in a call for service to the police it gets recorded as a crime and investigated straight away.

    Haha. Yes, that is exactly what happens..:p
  • Spicy_McHaggis
    Spicy_McHaggis Posts: 1,314 Forumite
    ConsumerGuy0016 wrote: »
    Haha. Yes, that is exactly what happens..:p

    It's what should happen, unless you can evidence to the contrary.

    Have a read on how the Home Office dictate how crime is recorded.
  • Collabora
    Collabora Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    edited 21 February 2015 at 9:08PM
    Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »
    Not exactly, it's a national call centre. Who collect information about fraud, if you score enough points it's gets a police investigation. If you put in a call for service to the police it gets recorded as a crime and investigated straight away.

    If you think it's civil and not a police matter then why did you suggest actionfraud do their job? I put it to you you're ignorant of the facts.

    Not always, if they consider it fraud they will direct you to ActionFraud so it gets reported to the NFIB who handle Fraud

    You clearly never read my last post. click on the NFIB link at see where it takes you
    The service is run by the City of London Police working alongside the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau who are responsible for assessment of the reports and to ensure that your fraud reports reach the right place.
  • Spicy_McHaggis
    Spicy_McHaggis Posts: 1,314 Forumite
    Collabora wrote: »
    You clearly never read my last post. click on the NFIB link at see where it takes you

    Why?

    It will end up with the OPs grandmothers local force is they report a fraud, so why not go direct to them?
  • Collabora
    Collabora Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »
    Why?

    It will end up with the OPs grandmothers local force is they report a fraud, so why not go direct to them?

    because it gets collated nationally and sometimes internationally, does not say it will go to here local force. i once has an officer turn up from a neighbouring force when i reported a fraud issue
  • Spicy_McHaggis
    Spicy_McHaggis Posts: 1,314 Forumite
    Collabora wrote: »
    because it gets collated nationally and sometimes internationally, does not say it will go to here local force. i once has an officer turn up from a neighbouring force when i reported a fraud issue

    Well you were obviously a victim of fraud in that force area. In this case any offence took place at the home address. ;)
  • Collabora
    Collabora Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »
    Well you were obviously a victim of fraud in that force area. In this case any offence took place at the home address. ;)

    No the Fraud happened at my home, it was assigned to the neighbouring force due to the fact they had similar cases.

    I have even had someone place a 28K cheque in my bank account ( no idea how they were going to get it back). i spotted this and contact my bank and i had a call from Thames Valley police and i am at the other end of the country, this same officer even travelled to have a chat with me
  • Spicy_McHaggis
    Spicy_McHaggis Posts: 1,314 Forumite
    Collabora wrote: »
    No the Fraud happened at my home, it was assigned to the neighbouring force due to the fact they had similar cases.

    I have even had someone place a 28K cheque in my bank account ( no idea how they were going to get it back). i spotted this and contact my bank and i had a call from Thames Valley police and i am at the other end of the country, this same officer even travelled to have a chat with me

    So either the victim or offence location was in Thames Valley. Else they had the offender.
  • Collabora
    Collabora Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »
    So either the victim or offence location was in Thames Valley. Else they had the offender.

    No as crimes are allocated to specific units and if similar crimes have been reported then it will be given to that crime unit.

    Have you never heard of crimes being allocated to other forces due to similar offences in their force area. Yes they have to liaise and inform your local force, but this does not mean it will be investigated by the local force
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