Friends parents scammed. Thoughts?

[noseall]

I would tear the faces off the ones I came into contact with if I ever got my hands on them.

Would that not be counterproductive? Should any other crimes they are resposible for, require them to be in a ID parade, it may scupper the ID process.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Guess what - he's only been caught again! My mates mum came in the room while he was giving out bank details, told him to put the phone down, he told her to **** off and this time he got done for £5k. He was convinced that he was talking to the bank this time although he has a fractured back at the moment and is on very strong painkillers. Luckily, he was refunded by the bank again! My mate is going to get their landline disconnected as he must be on some kind of scammers list.

I haven't seen this thread. Did he get all him money back the first time?

 

[Highway Man]

Would that not be counterproductive? Should any other crimes they are resposible for, require them to be in a ID parade, it may scupper the ID process.

It would make them think twice before scamming some other poor sod.

 

[noseall]

It would make them think twice before scamming some other poor sod.

And you'd end up in clink with them.

 

[Mottie]

I haven't seen this thread. Did he get all him money back the first time?

Yep, all of it. I think there might be a bit of dementia involved as well.

 

[aveatry]

It would make them think twice before scamming some other poor sod.

Yet again the forum troll noseall finds an angle to argue.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Yet again the forum troll noseall finds an angle to argue.

Im thinking surely not.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Yep, all of it. I think there might be a bit of dementia involved as well.

Thats great. Too many fuçķers about

 

[transam]

Just heard something that’s made me feel quite sick. I heard it third hand but basically a friends dad - treasurer of the church and something to do with guide dogs, a very well meaning and trusting chap, had a phone call telling him that the bank, Barclays were trying to catch an internal thief. They got him to take £25k from his savings and pay it into a 'special' account which he did. They then emailed him some invoices and got him to go to his bank and apply for a £120k loan which the bank did, over the counter, in his and his wife’s name even though his wife wasn’t present. He's 87 years old and just on a pension! WTF? My mates wife is dealing with the bank and they are saying they’ll let them know whether he's liable in a couple of weeks. He is sick with worry and won’t even come out of his bedroom, he's that embarrassed and ashamed. I’ve told my mate tgat I think the bank should be liable. Anyone here heard of anything similar? How did it turn out?

I have seen. Reports of similar elderly asked to assist in a police fraud investigation with drawing large sums of cash to lend to the police in order to catch the fraudsters

And people have actually done it !!!!!!!

 

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I think it's meant for situations like this. It is possible to get a marker put on a person's bank account so they get extra scrutiny for scam like transactions.

 

[Ihavenojob]

They tried it on with me a couple of weeks ago, said Trading 212 had a data breach and I would have to reset my password. It was early on a Monday morning, my head was still a bit fuzzy, then I came to my senses. Why would a massive global company with millions of customers ring them personally?

 

[Diver Fred]

An uncomfortable thread - hope resolvea well for every one caught up by the scammers.
What we have found is this week is we have received at least one scam call a day - Bank scam, boiler scam (x2), solar panel optimisation (we don't have any) - that's a new one: was out for a couple of days on the beach but the landline showed calls from suspicious numbers.