Fraud

LeMarais1979

eddddy said:

LeMarais1979 said:

notveryeducated said:

Report this to Action Fraud.

Thank you, I’ve now done this. The email they sent after the report implies that it will only be used for statistics as no money has been taken 🤷‍♀️

The fraud (or attempted fraud) was against the credit card company - or perhaps against merchants who parted with goods, and then had the fraudulent payment reversed.

So it's the card company and/or merchants who would report the fraud, and how much money (if any) they lost as a result of the fraud.

Card companies have sophisticated ways of dealing with fraud, but they won't discuss them with you and/or "joe public", to avoid tipping off fraudsters.

As an example, here's details of a "sting" that card companies helped Europol with, to catch 79 payment card fraudsters. https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/79-arrested-in-worldwide-crackdown-airline-fraud

Goodness me, I had no idea! This is crazy... my eyes have been well & truly opened lately. 

brianposter

LeMarais1979 said:

I was thinking surely the police would be interested in this address because I’ve no doubt that a lot of activity is going on there. 

There is not necessarily anything going on at the address itself, it could well be that someone can collect mail from the postbox or even someone in the PO. It would still seem to be worth investigation.

LeMarais1979

brianposter said:

LeMarais1979 said:

I was thinking surely the police would be interested in this address because I’ve no doubt that a lot of activity is going on there. 

There is not necessarily anything going on at the address itself, it could well be that someone can collect mail from the postbox or even someone in the PO. It would still seem to be worth investigation.

I agree. Thank you for all the advice and support 😊