I've been scammed, any help appreciated.

Report to the police and add that it's only fair to say there's media interest in the case... you never know, you may get a bit more attention from Plod if they can get up off their knee. Standing erect for a while may be a relief!
 
Screeeech said:
Just had a quick read,

By the sounds of it, if you report all of this to the bank - you should probably get your money back.

How long it will take is anyone’s guess, but on second thoughts it might be worth telling them, as they do have processes in place to deal with this.

There’s certainly no harm in reporting it to them and trying,
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Destination said:
Do this
See if anything comes of it
Little effort, might get your £30 back eventually, if so very little lost timewise
Report it online and go thru the details get a crime number
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Cheers, did phone bank scam last night but they wouldn't entertain it due to timescale, will call them back to update.

If £30 gone, cheap lesson learnt, the bloody rascals.
 
kona786 said:
£30 was the cost to teach you a valuable lesson. Trust no1.
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Not Facebook, as it happened to me in 1999, but it was for the same amount - £30. I stupidly agreed to buy Windows 98SE off someone who was selling it on our university's noticeboard.
We agreed on the sale via email, sent them a cheque for £30 and my address. I never received it and didn't hear back from them again after chasing it up.

Facebook doesn't occur to me as being an official route for buying stuff, so I use either eBay or Amazon Marketplace.
 
Definitely worth getting a crime number and reporting to bank - if there are other reports against the same account they are much more likely to do something.
 
SpellowHouse said:
£30 for experience is pretty cheap. You would have paid more than that for a "scam awareness" course!
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Yup, fully agree, I'd just love to know the real identity behind the scam if there is a way to find out, certainly beyond my IT skills.

More so if I could report to the plod....but likely they are not even in the UK?, so fruitless.
 
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If you're prompt enough with the bank and they pull their finger out one can hope the account could be closed before money has been taken out. I'm guessing the bank account is UK based they used? Did they not flag your transaction?

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Lots of people get ripped off on facebook.

I'd only do deals either on ebay or forums because you can see the reputation of the seller.

I'd see if you can flag it with the cops and bank though. Because they might have changed their profiles but I bet they are using the same bank details.
 
BowdonUK said:
Lots of people get ripped off on facebook.

I'd only do deals either on ebay or forums because you can see the reputation of the seller.

I'd see if you can flag it with the cops and bank though. Because they might have changed their profiles but I bet they are using the same bank details.
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Yeah, I'm gonna ring bank back, not expecting the cash back but hey ho, my fault.

I'd never part with any consequential sums without knowing or seeing absolute trust, this was just a **** in the wind and my error.
 
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Sorry to hear about your experience, but I guess it's lesson learned. I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't the only person who got scammed.
 
Resident said:
Sort Code should give you the name of his bank. Give them a ring and let em know. They may lock his account out
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Yeah I'll do this, I'm assuming these scrotes have burner accounts but no idea how they open them assuming they will do it loads.

For it to work in assuming any funds they have going into the account are moved out straight away.

The account i paid into was:

***Removed once I'd realised how daft I'm being***

Assume this will likely be dead now?

Can anyone find out who they are from this?
 
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BowdonUK said:
Lots of people get ripped off on facebook.

I'd only do deals either on ebay or forums because you can see the reputation of the seller.

I'd see if you can flag it with the cops and bank though. Because they might have changed their profiles but I bet they are using the same bank details.
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I was looking at car turbos recently - the amount of listings on ebay where they've obviously bought a replacement turbo, then cleaned up and packaged up their old one and trying to sell it as the "only slightly used" replacement turbo is crazy and some where I can't be sure they are doing that but suspect they've photographed the new one and would be shipping the old one :s
 
Probably way off so won't be specific but there is someone with a very close name to that in Oldham who has a lovely family who've made the news a couple of times for crime... so wouldn't surprise me if they were into a bit of scamming.
 
Rroff said:
Probably way off so won't be specific but there is someone with a very close name to that in Oldham who has a lovely family who've made the news a couple of times for crime... so wouldn't surprise me if they were into a bit of scamming.
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Anything more you can expand on, even if in a PM, I know a lot of people in Oldham (used to work there and got around a lot).

Clearly if dodgy I'm not gonna forfeit my safety.
 
2004typer said:
Yeah I'll do this, I'm assuming these scrotes have burner accounts but no idea how they open them assuming they will do it loads.

For it to work in assuming any funds they have going into the account are moved out straight away.

The account i paid into was:

Assume this will likely be dead now?

Can anyone find out who they are from this?
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You can but it will likely take a lot of work, ultimately observation posts can only get you so far, eventually to figure out the truth you need to start kidnapping people and begin interrogations.

Edit this is after you've gotten into the bank system to get all info on that account
 
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2004typer said:
Anything more you can expand on, even if in a PM, I know a lot of people in Oldham (used to work there and got around a lot).

Clearly if dodgy I'm not gonna forfeit my safety.
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Not without knowing whether anyone is actually involved or not - there is information you can dig up with a bit of Google, Phone Book and 192.com but it would be far from certain whether they were involved or whether just had their account hijacked, etc. etc. without a lot more digging.
 
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