woolley Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Any advance on............ Our beloved OFT warning today about the poor fool who received an unsolicited text offering loans and since things were a bit tight decided to take up the offer. After making not one but two repayments the victim woke up to the fact that there probably was no loan; just a scam. You can imagine the fraudsters thinking "no point in doing this, they'll never fall for it" but as they say, there really is one born every minute. They must have been incoherent with glee when not just the first but also the second repayment arrived. Some people are really not safe to be out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 So, he started repaying a loan he never received? Jeez, some people don't deserve the brain they don't use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirstabby Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 To be fair this kind of stupidity is basically the entire point of having regulated finance so I still feel sympathetic towards the idiot, it's not his fault he's a fool. If you think that he should be made to face the consequences of such naivety I challenge you to explain why a bank shouldn't bury some bizarre term in your mortgage that allows it to increase the rate to 1000% for a laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirstabby Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (although, yeah, even with the sympathy I still think the guy was a fookwit - he was having to pay back the loan with moneygram ffs ) - see this. Wouldn't be totally surprised if he is making up what the scam was, it may have been a dating scam for example and he doesn't want his wife to know. This is somewhat topical to me because someone at my local is being scammed by a nigerian scammer pretending to be his girlfriend. We've all told him several times with varying levels of tact and it's a really sad situation but I dunno what any of us can do really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 Yes, come to think of it, someone I know was convinced that a 19 year old gorgeous blonde Polish girl in Gdansk was desperate to make mad passionate love to him despite him being 50 and looking not a day less if only he would send her £600 for the fare. He would not be told that it was probably a hairy arsed docker despite usually being quite rational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 There's no fool like an old fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I think OFT dreams up half of these scams to justify their existence for all the good they are, they are pulling the biggest scam of all taking wages of all the destitute, or soon to be, taxpayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thommo2010 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 See a lot worse than that on a daily basis. People leaving keys in their car then wonder why their car has been stolen or leaving their bank card/cash in a machine and walking away (have to confess done this before) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
credente Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 There's no fool like an old fool. According to your profile you're 103. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molly Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Was it Eddie Teare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballaughbiker Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Or the other one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Moneygram, it is generally used by those on the 'dark side'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hazard Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Moneygram, it is generally used by those on the 'dark side'. Definitely. Moneygram and Escrow must be well peeved. Either of those words mentioned in a financial transaction instantly sparks a feeling that it's dubious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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