Cousin scammed - legal action?

Hordak

Hello all,

This is my first thread her. I'm on here on behalf of my cousin. One of my friends recommended asking my questions on this site.

Before proceeding further, I understand the comments/answers given in response to my questions should only be considered friendly advise and not professional advise. We don't have the money to seek professional advise at this stage.

My cousin is really upset, so I hope some of you kind people can give us some direction. My cousin was the victim of a scam. Someone contacted her via social media and made a proposal to her. If she can produce and deliver a number of explicit pictures they will in return buy and send them some jewellery from an online jeweller retailer. The scammer would actually make the purchase and then send her the confirmation e-mail to prove it's all legit'. He would then cancel the order after receiving the pictures. We know this because we contacted the retailer with the ref' number.

Is my cousin able to:

a) Take legal action from England against him because she has all the e-mails and WhatsApp transcripts in a bid to force him to buy her what was agreed?

b) Take legal action from England action for spamming her if she has no chance to claim what was promised?

c) Take legal action from England against him for refusing to delete her pictures and adding/using them to his "!!!!!! portfolio"? They're not being put on the Internet, but being shared with others. She knows this because she e-mailed him to delete them and threatened take legal action of she learns to they're being misused or shared with strangers. He refused to delete them, but promised he would not misuse them.

We believe the scammer is in North America going by his mobile number and we're based in the UK.

Thank you.

marcarm

If you can't afford legal advice, then I'm pretty certain you won't be able to afford to take someone to court in America.

If it were me, I would chalk it up to experience and not do things like this again, don't send any pictures to anyone that you wouldn't be afraid to show your mum, that way they cannot be mis-used.

KatrinaWaves

Hordak wrote: »

Hello all,

This is my first thread her. I'm on heer on behalf of my cousin. One of my friends recommended asking my questions on this site.

Before proceeding further, I understand the comments/answers given in response to my questions should only be considered friendly advise and not professional advise. We don't have the money to seek professional advise at this stage.

My cousin is really upset, so I hope some of you kind people can give us some direction. My cousin was the victim of a scam. Someone contacted her via social media and made a proposal to her. If she can produce and deliver a number of explicit pictures they will in return buy and send them some jewellery from an online jeweller retailer. The scammer would actually make the purchase and then send her the confirmation e-mail to prove it's all legit'. He would then cancel the order after receiving the pictures. We know this because we contacted the retailer with the ref' number.

Is my cousin able to:

a) Take legal action from England against him because she has all the e-mails and WhatsApp transcripts in a bid to force him to buy her what was agreed?

b) Take legal action from England action for spamming her if she has no chance to claim what was promised?

c) Take legal action from England against him for refusing to delete her pictures and adding/using them to his "!!!!!! portfolio"? They're not being put on the Internet, but being shared with others. She knows this because she e-mailed him to delete them and threatened take legal action of she learns to they're being misused or shared with strangers. He refused to delete them, but promised he would not misuse them.

We believe the scammer is in North American going by his mobile number and we're based in the UK.

Thank you.

So she is happy for him to have these pictures as long as she gets her jewelry?

I'd suggest she takes this one on the chin, and in future gets her goods before she shares her goods...

Hordak

marcarm wrote: »

If you can't afford legal advice, then I'm pretty certain you won't be able to afford to take someone to court in America.

If it were me, I would chalk it up to experience and not do things like this again, don't send any pictures to anyone that you wouldn't be afraid to show your mum, that way they cannot be mis-used.

If the courts in America can consider the above, then we might strongly consider pursuing the matter when we can afford it.

neilmcl

Not really the place for this, is it. I assume your cousin is a consenting adult, in which case she/he should put this down to experience and stop being so naive.

[Deleted User]

Forget it.

Instead, invest your efforts in educating your cousin on how to use the internet. She sounds incredibly naive and vulnerable.

Hordak

She is, yes. She's in her 20s.

marcarm

Hordak wrote: »

If the courts in America can consider the above, then we might strongly consider pursuing the matter when we can afford it.

If you can afford it then, just buy her some jewellry and then she hasn't lost out.

Save the rest of the money for something else.

And don't send naked pictures to random strangers from the internet, jewels or no jewels.

Comms69

Next thread will be "we were offered free legal representation in exchange for explicit pictures...."

waamo

In answer to your questions

A.) None. They are out of jurisdiction of British courts.

B.) None. See A.

C.) None. See A. Plus the images aren't being posted online. That makes the "right to be forgotten" pretty much moot. You also have the problem that you have no idea who the individual is or even know with 100% certainty which continent they are on. A police report would be, frankly, futile.

Hordak

We have his e-mails.

Can't they search his IP and make contact with his ISP?