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I think i have been scammed!!

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  • Hey, i really don't get this guy! and can't believe its all still going on. i was recruited by him about 6 years ago for a job based in norwich. i was interviewed in magdalen street, offered a job and taken to London for a days training...(to see the sites and learn about what i would be selling in this call centre...trips, basically upselling when a hotel in londo was booked) anyway... when we returned back from day 1 in london several heavys were awaiting him along with a taxi firm he had ripped off and a computer company.

    i see what you said about him and one of your younfer friends. when i met him he had a boyfriend about 17 years old!

    Look out for your friend mate x
  • patman99
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    I can't believe having read all 12 pages, that this guy has still not been arrested and charged over the Ebay scams. Surely those he scammed are not prepared to simply forget about it ?.
    HullGuy, if you still read this thread, then your young friend needs to report this grooming attempt to the Police.
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  • This guy is at it again. Using the name Nathan Crompton, Director of Operations, Prestige Office Solutions. "Working" around Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen he has been advertising jobs through mainstream websites. Whilst not 100% sure of the scan suspect it involved getting ID from "sucessful" candidates and using this ID to obtain loans / credit.
  • beckaroo
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    patman99 wrote: »
    I can't believe having read all 12 pages, that this guy has still not been arrested and charged over the Ebay scams. Surely those he scammed are not prepared to simply forget about it ?.
    HullGuy, if you still read this thread, then your young friend needs to report this grooming attempt to the Police.

    Ditto, just stumbled upon this thread and read the whole thing...I am disgusted at our justice system that this guy can get away with all this and it looks like he is still committing further crimes! The Police just aren't interested in anything like this which gives the law-abiding public no faith in them anymore.

    My sister was conned out of £5000 by a different individual (not linked to this case) who it later transpired had conned hundreds of people and then skipped off back to his home country of Jordan with millions of pounds of people's money...again, the Police weren't interested, said it was a civil matter.
  • He has already conned myself out of money through this new company he has set up, keeps promising to pay me and then when he didnt and i went to the police he found out and told me to 'keep my mouth shut, you useless girl.'
    He is a nasty piece of work and only hope that his karma will come and get him soon as he is unstoppable and just hurting people left, right and centre.
    He is now driving as well so him being able to do a runner a lot easier. This guy needs to be stopped, cant believe he has been able to get away with this for so long and that his parents havent given him a good beating by now, i know if it had been my child i would of done something to stop him!
  • Kazee, this is the previous director of sales for prestige office solutions, i do apologise for nathan crompton, however, i did inform the agency as soon as i found out about him and they did not believe me and were not willing to do the research i had advised for them to do.
    He has taken money from me and he led me on for 3 months and i was taken away from a very good job for this.
    He changed my password on my company emails as soon as he knew i had found out about him otherwise i wanted to call you and inform you of my findings.
    All i ask is please could you not publish that 0800 number, as nathan has changed where the calls get directed to and they get directed to my mobile and i am getting some very angry phone calls when i am in more ways, then some, a victim to this "man's" activities.
    I have reported him to many different authorities and trying to contact as many companies, that i knew he dealt with to shut his operations down, which is not easy.
    I have been to see his parents, to inform them of what he is up to. However, to say we have mutual family friends and have known of each other for a long time, i feel more disappointed with the fact they never informed me of what he had been up to all these years.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,922 Forumite
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    Turn the phone calls to your advantage?

    Get them all to report it to the police with a crime number and collect them. Try and get to speak to someone at your local police station and say look this guys making a mint from defrauding people.

    Give them a list of crime numbers.
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  • patman99
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    Hullgirl can you not get another SIM for your phone ?. Explain to your provider what has happened & that this kn0b has set his office number to divert to your mobile.
    Alternatively, you could ask for a new SIM and to put the current one onto PAYG. If they agree, record a message on the old number informing the callers they need to contact the Police & report the crime.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

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  • Think i may have to get in touch with my network provider, to be fair there haven't been many calls, just so people know he is no longer tied to that number, also, he has a friend calling from 07887910920 pretending to be different people from different companies, for different reasons, i do not know this persons real name but no he has a scottish accent and is very polite.
  • Lynx600T
    Lynx600T Posts: 2 Newbie
    edited 24 April 2013 at 5:09PM
    I was led on by this piece of work. I have yet to be paid for 2 months of work, After going to this website, I found that even though the company is "in liquidation" it's still active and by the looks of it, he's just taken on another poor guy thats going to get screwed.

    http:***//companycheck.co.uk/company/08382244

    (remove the 3 asterisks after http: )

    And i can confirm that Nathans mobile number has changed from the previously mentioned ending in 0957, if anyone would like his telephone number, do not hesitate to PM me and i will more than happily share it.

    He took me for over £500 for a laptop he purchased through one of the businesses suppliers. After reading this, i now know my laptop doesnt exist.

    I have started legal proceedings against both Prestige Office solutions and Nathan. if HullGirl is who i think she is, please pm me and and i shall be in touch.

    After seeing all of this thread, i hope no one will be annoyed if i took a copy of this to show my solicitor, as well as passing it onto the fraud squad, local authorities, crime stoppers, trading standards and the department of work and pensions.
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