It doesn't look like he will get the money but let's hope he gets the phone back. If not, lesson learned. 02 buy old phones and so do Cex - walk into a store, safer than posting it.
Well, at least he has learnt a valuable lesson. Though I would have been there to intercept the ****ing package if it was £400, I wouldn't give a **** how far it was.
Has the thief received the parcel, then? Did your mate have to weigh the item to send it special delivery? Don't suppose that there's a record of the weight, is there?
Haha that’s funny tbf, your mate can’t prove he didn’t send an empty box either unless he had it weighed when he posted it and he’s kept the receipt, otherwise I reckon he’s ****ed. Slippery bastards
I'd only expect queries on a debit card and not credit cards tbh You definitely need to do a financial overhaul, that all sounds mad.
Yeah I'd have bunked off work and gone there, didn't get delivered until afetr 1pm I'd have taken a few mates and sorted the ****.
Gumtree & Craigslist are the most corrupted sites for scammers. Anybody with any sense wouldn't use either.
Nearly got done years ago. Sounds naive now, but this was around 15 years ago when internet fraud wasn’t as commonly known. Basically sold a guitar and the buyer said he’d send me a bankers draft for an amount that was rounded up and to send the remainder of the balance via western union. Anyway, got the bankers draft, took it to the bank and cashed it. As the cashier was counting out the cash she asked what I was going to spend it on, I told her the story and she stopped and told me it was probably fraud. Two weeks later the bankers draft ‘bounced’. I’d already sent off the guitar, fortunately it was just a random address and the occupier phoned me to say they knew nothing about it and sent me back the guitar.
I don't mean this to refer to you Piskie, but you've brought up something very relevant to the thread. Most of us take certain schemes and well known fraud attempts for granted, but a lot of older people don't recognise them. With the rise of social media and everything being done online, there's a lot of elderly people that get ripped off. Horrible ****ers preying on the weak.
Absolute ****s preying on people who aren’t familiar with the internet. The fraud I was almost victim of was fairly well known by today’s standards. I.e ‘I’ll send you a bankers draft, you cash it, keep your money and wire the remainder to me via western union money transfer’ but 15 years ago that was unknown to me. If it wasn’t for the vigilance of the cashier I would have been done up like a kipper.
A few years ago someone tried to rip me off over some festival tickets for £1600. The tickets were sold on eBay and sent special delivery and signed for. The **** then reported me to Paypal and said that it was an empty envelope ! Paypal refunded them in full ffs. So I asked a mate to look into this for me. He found out from other sellers on eBay that he had done similar to them. My mate then found out some more personal details about the buyer - where his wife worked etc. He then phoned the scammer at 3 o’clock in the morning and told him what he knew and that he better refund the Paypal payment to myself and all the others he had scammed. I don’t know exactly what he said but it worked.
