Anyone got experience with the police investigating online scammers?

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A few of us on another forum have been scammed by BT payments and I was curious as to what info. may or may not be relevant and what the chances are of any of us getting our mula back.

Info. I have are as follows:

A telephone number (mobile straight to answerphone)
Address (Rugby address, I'm about 1.5 hours away otherwise I'd pay a visit myself to check it out)
Name
Bank account no. and sort code.
My full chat history with him

Would an IP address help at all or anything else?

I'm popping along to my local station tomorrow so was wondering if there's anything particular I should bring with me or ask for?

Anyone gone through this before?

The douchebag mainly promised people HP Touchpads.

Thanks!
 
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No, I purchased an item, paying by bank transfer, it has since transpired he's scammed at least 6 people so we're going to get the police to investigate.

I was wondering if anyone had experience with this before and what the chances are of anything being recovered with the info. we have about him.
 
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Report it to your bank as well as police, although I wouldn't put money on it being returned.

However no harm in trying.

Out of interest, how much was it?
 
Police won't do anything at all, they will send you a letter saying they cannot continue with the investigation as they do not have enough funds, no wonder nobody respects/likes the police anymore.
 
Yeah, called my bank, nothing they can do about bank transfer once it's gone through. Although it sounded like an Indian call center and kept telling me to get in touch with the payee.

I kept re-iterating that I couldn't and that was the problem, *rolleyes* and they only people I could get in touch with are themselves and the Police at this point. She sounded so hesitant and kept repeating about contacting the payee. It's like banging your head against a brick wall.

It was over £100 for me personally, but between all the people that he scammed (that we know about from the last few hours anyway) he's probably got about £1k.

I'm tempted to drive to the address that he's given to all of us, but I'm not exactly a big guy and I'm not sure how I'd handle a confrontation, so I'm going to see if my local Police can contact his local Police to send someone around perhaps.
 
Turns out the address was fake, the Police got his records from the bank and he's already known to them. Lots of people were scammed, so due to a previous history hopefully he'll get prosecuted.
Interesting thing though, if it was a first time offence then the chances are he'd get off scott free with a caution, crazy. Will have to see how it pans out now.
 
I knew this would happen to someone out there, this touchpad business is very risky. :(

Hope you get it sorted and the scammer gets what's coming to him.

OR

Scam the scammer? :D
 
Yes, I had a user who used these very forums arrested over £20. Unfortunately the CPS decided it wasn't in the public's interest to take it to court but I hope it made this guy think twice.
 
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