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Offline Yoshi

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Police are teethless!!
« on: June 30, 2009, 18:16:04 »
Went to report a fraud this afternoon only to be told by the police that it wouldnt even be investigated as they wouldnt be able to get information they required from a bank!

Am well annoyed, as they said they wouldnt even attempt to obtain a court order for the information :(

So as said, the police are now teethless!
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Re: Police are teethless!!
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 19:47:23 »
what are the circumstances? Please don't tell me it's something to do with an internet or email scam.
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Re: Police are teethless!!
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 19:57:11 »
Many banks have their own Fraud investigation team!
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Re: Police are teethless!!
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2009, 21:13:06 »
Quote from: Panda on June 30, 2009, 19:57:11
Many banks have their own Fraud investigation team!

Exactly. When some little  :-# ripped off my card details a couple of years ago it was handled by the bank's in-house fraud squad. I've no idea what the outcome was, but would imagine that they gathered all the evidence they could, possibly compared it with other banks in an effort to determine the source of the leak, and then passed all details to the Police (or CPS? Not 100% sure how this works!) to prepare a prosecution.
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Re: Police are teethless!!
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2009, 21:24:44 »
The Data Protection Act has a lot to answer for, Yoshi. Believe me, being one of the so called 'teethless' ones, I have come across brickwalls thrown up by people who are supposed to be on our side so many times.
Without knowing the full facts, I can't really comment on your particular problem. Saying that, it probably would not be the best idea to stick it on an open forum. If you want to PM me, I'll puzzle over it.
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Re: Police are teethless!!
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2009, 22:33:08 »
Quote from: Disco Matt on June 30, 2009, 21:13:06
Quote from: Panda on June 30, 2009, 19:57:11
Many banks have their own Fraud investigation team!

Exactly. When some little  :-# ripped off my card details a couple of years ago it was handled by the bank's in-house fraud squad. I've no idea what the outcome was, but would imagine that they gathered all the evidence they could, possibly compared it with other banks in an effort to determine the source of the leak, and then passed all details to the Police (or CPS? Not 100% sure how this works!) to prepare a prosecution.

It depends how much money was lost and if they got any back. Similar thing happened to me. I KNOW who got my card details (long story but I bought something off an internet site) and he used it to access porn sites. The bank got a refund from the porn site and flatly told me they were not interested in persuing the fraudster as it wasn't cost effective. The porn site had given them his IP address as well. Water tight case but they wouldn't have regained any money from it so why bother?
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Re: Police are teethless!!
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2009, 16:04:56 »
I've got an investigation ongoing with my bank as I noticed £10 had gone from my account to a Nat West Standing order. Its only just started and I definately haven't set it up. we'll see what happens?
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