Anonymous

Christchurch

Software Developer

I had a case of a scammer trying to get me to sell my boat to him. He would pay by cheque and add the money for me to give to his agent to ship it back to ireland.
He was trying to defraud me of about £10,000 I had his mobile phone number, an email account that had existed for 10 days and got replies and it was all in Ireland.
Called my local police in the hope that I could continue to string them along, do the deal and they could catch him red handed. A very apologetic policeman said that he could not act unless more that £50,000 was involved as he would have to get Interpol involved before contacting the Garda. He had no effective channel to pass this on to.

Scandalous - fraudsters getting large sums from individuals can operate with complete impunity, safe in the knowledege that they have no risks because the police aren't even interested no matter what mistakes they make.

No wonder this type of crime is rocketing!