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Post by overthehill on Aug 12, 2023 18:59:58 GMT
1) This is what happens when you stop educating yourself or
2) Many more people are isolated now and have no one to confide in or get advice from.
or
3) Most people think contacting the police is a total waste of time.
The cockroach criminals operate with impunity and even when caught the punishment is zero deterrent laughable. As usual crypto currency is involved, very few people in this country at least have been scammed by their local bank branch (although I do remember the Nationwide trying to sell me an investment product during a mortgage application, where the first 2 years contribution went straight to them, a lot of staring ensued until she blinked first!)
Somerset woman loses £40k in online scam.
A little worrying that she is having to repay the loans, surely on a proven scam the banks should be compensating her
I think the over optimistic expectancy of automatic compensation for any type of scam is another factor which helps the scam artists. I'm betting the reality is much worse. It depends on how many scam alerts are built into the application and how many have been ignored. Legal and personal action to prove the lender culpable will be stressful and costly. Apart from places like MSE who is going to help or force the lender to compensate you?
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Post by keitha on Aug 12, 2023 19:48:21 GMT
True, we forget how convincing these people can be, and how they will talk you through ignoring to answering "yes" to "are you sure" etc.
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Post by keitha on Aug 12, 2023 22:21:20 GMT
A little worrying that she is having to repay the loans, surely on a proven scam the banks should be compensating her I think the over optimistic expectancy of automatic compensation for any type of scam is another factor which helps the scam artists. I'm betting the reality is much worse. It depends on how many scam alerts are built into the application and how many have been ignored. Legal and personal action to prove the lender culpable will be stressful and costly. Apart from places like MSE who is going to help or force the lender to compensate you?
there's a legal firm advertising on the Radio at the moment Have you been scammed, Crypto, romance frauds, ...We'll help you get your money back"
XXX Solicitors, we are regulated by the FCAwhy would solicitors be regulated by the FCA not the SRA
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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 13, 2023 6:44:20 GMT
I think the over optimistic expectancy of automatic compensation for any type of scam is another factor which helps the scam artists. I'm betting the reality is much worse. It depends on how many scam alerts are built into the application and how many have been ignored. Legal and personal action to prove the lender culpable will be stressful and costly. Apart from places like MSE who is going to help or force the lender to compensate you?
there's a legal firm advertising on the Radio at the moment Have you been scammed, Crypto, romance frauds, ...We'll help you get your money back"
XXX Solicitors, we are regulated by the FCAwhy would solicitors be regulated by the FCA not the SRA equally importantly, I can't help but feel when I hear adverts like this that you are lining yourself to be scammed by the people advertising to deal with your supposed scam...
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Post by keitha on Aug 13, 2023 11:54:02 GMT
What a bit like the companies advertising to help you "reclaim the fees that PPI claim companies charged"
I know someone doing this he got over £4,000 on a PPI claim after the company took £2,000 as the fee for getting it back, the company involved are saying its a £25% fee.
what comes next companies getting in on claiming a chunk of that fee back.
as I see it his £4,000 is more than he paid in the first place so he's in profit, personally I think he should be chasing some of the £30,000 that he's owed by customers of his business that has been outstanding moire than 3 years. Stupidly he has one person refusing to pay a £5,000 bill because a window was cracked, for gawds sake get out there measure up get a new unit and then she has no argument, I've seen the emails she has said she will pay as soon as that glass is replaced. I've even offered to pay for the glass if he will agree to pay me back as soon as he gets paid.
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Post by keitha on Aug 15, 2023 11:12:53 GMT
CHARITY CLOTHES COLLECTIONS
mostly come in plastic bags with the name of a well known charity on
these are a profit making business.
the one that just dropped through my door
"£10 per 1000KG to the charity" that's1p per KG
we have a cash for clothes locally that takes clothes at 50p per kg, ok they don't damaged badly worn or stained.
but lets say you have 20KG of decent clothes, dump them in the bag, the charity gets 20p, Sell them at cash for clothes and get £10 give that to the charity with gift aid of course .
Better still take them to a local charity shop, they will make an awful lot more.
but whatever you do don't use these charity bags
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Aug 21, 2023 19:06:03 GMT
The great fishfinder hunt continues, what I did not understand was the dual functionality of these devices.Not only do they findfish but act as irresistible bait for Facebook scammers who having found one try to then resale ,well at least obtain money for on marketplace. Having clearly stated at the start I would only pay PayPal goods and services ,invoiced through the Facebook app the amazing range of excuses to get me to pay friends and family or try to tell me paying directly to their email account was the same thing. Given up on Facebook unless collected from sellers home address and would recommend the same to all of you.
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Post by keitha on Aug 21, 2023 19:22:59 GMT
The great fishfinder hunt continues, what I did not understand was the dual functionality of these devices.Not only do they findfish but act as irresistible bait for Facebook scammers who having found one try to then resale ,well at least obtain money for on marketplace. Having clearly stated at the start I would only pay PayPal goods and services ,invoiced through the Facebook app the amazing range of excuses to get me to pay friends and family or try to tell me paying directly to their email account was the same thing. Given up on Facebook unless collected from sellers home address and would recommend the same to all of you. As a seller you do not take PayPal for collection items strictly cash only. If you take PayPal and then they collect they can file non receipt and PayPal will refund as you can not prove receipt.
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Post by moonraker on Aug 23, 2023 20:09:02 GMT
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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 23, 2023 20:26:14 GMT
not really. It says "Network rail is giving away 150 travel cards that will allow you to travel on their trains free for one year". One obviously glaring problem with that is Network Rail doesn't actually own any trains, nor does it operate any.
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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 23, 2023 20:30:45 GMT
CHARITY CLOTHES COLLECTIONSmostly come in plastic bags with the name of a well known charity on these are a profit making business. the one that just dropped through my door "£10 per 1000KG to the charity" that's1p per KG we have a cash for clothes locally that takes clothes at 50p per kg, ok they don't damaged badly worn or stained. but lets say you have 20KG of decent clothes, dump them in the bag, the charity gets 20p, Sell them at cash for clothes and get £10 give that to the charity with gift aid of course . Better still take them to a local charity shop, they will make an awful lot more. but whatever you do don't use these charity bags Oh, but I do use those charity bags. They get hung in the utility room and used as the collection bag for all our film plastic that then goes to our local supermarket for recycling (well done Tesco for being the first (?) supermarket to offer a general film plastic (inc. crisp packet etc) recycling facility). The other use I make of them is to actually put clothes in, for depositing in a Salvation Army clothes recycling bin, or to simply give directly to a charity shop. Its taken a while for me to persuade my wife to not actually put anything in them and leave them on the doorstep.
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Post by overthehill on Aug 23, 2023 21:10:56 GMT
not really. It says "Network rail is giving away 150 travel cards that will allow you to travel on their trains free for one year". One obviously glaring problem with that is Network Rail doesn't actually own any trains, nor does it operate any.
Yes, but an extremely high percentage of people susceptible to scams wouldn't know the difference between Network Rail, Stagecoach or the Pony Express.
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Post by agent69 on Aug 23, 2023 21:14:37 GMT
not really. It says "Network rail is giving away 150 travel cards that will allow you to travel on their trains free for one year". One obviously glaring problem with that is Network Rail doesn't actually own any trains, nor does it operate any.
Yes, but an extremely high percentage of people susceptible to scams wouldn't know the difference between Network Rail, Stagecoach or the Pony Express.
The Pony Express always arrived on time
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Post by keitha on Aug 23, 2023 22:48:12 GMT
Yes, but an extremely high percentage of people susceptible to scams wouldn't know the difference between Network Rail, Stagecoach or the Pony Express.
The Pony Express always arrived on time only lasted 18 months though
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Post by moonraker on Aug 25, 2023 11:57:54 GMT
I rarely pick up landline calls nowadays but on the last two occasions I did answer the phone and was told that my washing-machine insurance had expired. By now isn't this an old-fashioned scam with which many people are familiar? And it's quite labour-intensive as it was a personal call rather than the automated ones usually featuring a concerned American female voice warning me of a suspect payment on an account I don't hold.
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