Car sale scam

Double_V

foxtrotoscar wrote: »

The money that was transferred will have been withdrawn by the receiver as soon as it hits their account. Even if it were possible for the bank to do so there will be no money available for a reverse transaction to happen.

Inform your bank the whole story.
Bank contacting respective branch and asking customer to bring back the money ?
Or surely something the banks could do ?

George_Michael

Double_V wrote: »

Inform your bank the whole story.
Bank contacting respective branch and asking customer to bring back the money ?
Or surely something the banks could do ?

The bank transfer itself was not fraudulent as it was carried out at the request of the account holder.
Because of this, there is nothing that the bank can or will do.


There is a very good chance that the "seller" is not in the UK and the same goes for the money. It will have been transferred to another account or withdrawn as soon as it was received.

megaginge

Yoshush wrote: »

Noone will bomb anyone so no nato nato needed i just want my 20k euros back

This must be a wind up... Must be ... Please tell me it's a wind up..

Le_Kirk

What gets me about these bank transfers to false accounts and then "oh dear, the money has been withdrawn" scenarios is why don't the banks know where the person who set up the account lives and then someone can inform police or Action Fraud. My daughter is in the process of buying a flat and I am putting up some money for deposit. We have both had to send scanned passports and two proofs EACH of where we live to both the mortgage provider and the solicitor. Not only that the passport scans and proof of address had to be certified!! Why don't the banks do this for con artist/scammers yet they do it for the innocent general public?

philatio

If you read what was posted above, its because the scammers are usually in foreign countries where security protocols are not so rigorous.

usefulmale

Double_V wrote: »

I find really hard to believe that once you have transferred money to someone and you cannot retract it.

Surely you can go to your bank ask them to reverse the transaction.

I was on a similar thread the other day and which brings me back to my same question; so anyone can go around scam people and nothing will happen ?
I can set up a fake product and receive money in my "uk" bank and nobody can do nothing to me.
This cannot be right.

Banks have no desire to mediate in disputes.

What did Mickey Bricks say? You can't con an honest man.

Quite simply, the OP greed took over from his/her common sense.

wealdroam

Makalu wrote: »

Amazed at all the really unhelpful scathing remarks on here!!! Crikey, Yes this person has made an error and clearly though the was going to receive a car!!! If you're brave enough to admit what you've done and request a bit of advice from a so called friendly forum then surely you should get just that!. Honestly some people. You lot may as well be the people who sold him the car/not car in the first place as they will also be laughing their heads off/rolling eyes. I need to log off as this is a joke!!

Makalu, have you anything helpful to say?