I have been duped by an old friend (£200). What are my options?

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  • ldsfit
    ldsfit Posts: 6 Forumite
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    The transfer was made to his name. So if it was a scammer, why send the money to the real accounts bank?
  • BoGoF
    BoGoF Posts: 7,099 Forumite
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    The name on the transfer is irrelevant.
  • Tallaght
    Tallaght Posts: 1,632 Forumite
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    Try https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
  • jonesMUFCforever
    jonesMUFCforever Posts: 28,898 Forumite
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    BoGoF wrote: »
    The name on the transfer is irrelevant.
    Correct..... I bet the recipient was waiting by an ATM to get a message on his/her banking app to say money had arrived ......then withdrawn........NEVER to be seen again.

    OP put it down to experience but you have been scammed.
  • sourcrates
    sourcrates Posts: 28,887 Ambassador
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    edited 27 May 2018 at 6:28PM
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    ldsfit wrote: »
    It's £200 and i can get over it. However, it's the principle. I don't know his address, although he mentioned where he lived and what he did for a Job. Funnily enough, i actually believe his job role as he mentioned things about it that somebody just wouldn't make up on the spot. Either that, or he's a brilliant fraudster. Ha!
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    This type of thing or scams very similar, crop up all the time on these forums, not one poster in the last 10 years has ever come back to update us they have got their money back, so that should tell you something.

    Its not nice to be scammed especially by someone you think you know, he probebley is a fraudster, people tend to change sometimes.

    I`d put it down to experience and move on to be honest as the process to recover what he owes you can take a very long time, and be very costly, lots of people ignore CCJ`s, as without further enforcement action (and cost) they are really quite meaningless to some people.
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  • takman
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    ldsfit wrote: »
    The transfer was made to his name. So if it was a scammer, why send the money to the real accounts bank?

    Ignoring the fact that names mean nothing when doing a bank transfer. Don't you get it; your old friend is the scammer, he lied about someone paying you the money In cash to scam you out of £200.
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,552 Forumite
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    ldsfit wrote: »
    Guys, I really appreciate the time you have taken to respond but please read the OP.

    I had a phone conversation with him and a Facebook conversation with him, the same account I have conversed with over the years. He has also sent me texts AFTER the money was sent. It’s not a “scam”. Besides, why would a scammer continue to converse once they have the cash?


    Because they know your an easy target and hope to extract more money from you.
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  • DCFC79
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    ldsfit wrote: »
    The transfer was made to his name. So if it was a scammer, why send the money to the real accounts bank?


    Ok so it wasn't a scammer, locate him using the electoral register and see if hes home, if hes home then you know you have been done.
  • ldsfit
    ldsfit Posts: 6 Forumite
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    I’ve looked back over our previous conversation and it’s definitely him and not an impersonation as he mentioned something that I said at school.
  • Sarastro
    Sarastro Posts: 400 Forumite
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    Go to the police or suck it up.
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