Call from plod.

[motorbiking]

I had a genuine call from HMRC once about refunding a fine I had paid based on the incorrect advice from their staff. Took the poor lady a few goes to convince me it was genuine.

The geordie accent convinced me in the end along with the correct references.

 

[motorbiking]

A few years back, when I was distributing pet supplements, we got an order for about 90K from a guy that wanted to import them into Saudi Arabia. He said he would transfer the money via BACs in a few minutes. Minutes later we got a phone call from my business account saying that we had received £105K and that it looked fraudulent. He told us to expect an email asking us to refund the 15K overpayment and then send the goods. Sure enough, the guy did exactly that. We ignored the email and the 90K was removed from our account.

I don't understand how the money could hit our account but I guess he had wanted the overpayment to be sent to another account.

£105k comes in £15k goes back £105k is backed out. You never see the 15k. The other scenario is they are using you to wash their money.