I’m watching the docuseries Love Rats on Netflix, a series about people who have been scammed out of thousands of pounds by their partners / friends etc. It’s a UK series, if it’s not available elsewhere think of it like Tinder Swindler – mostly women meeting men via online dating who then aren’t who they say they are and manage to scam them out of a significant amount of money.
A lot of these people have lost so much, £50,000-£200,000, and none of them are able to get any back even if the person committing fraud against them has been arrested and charged – why is that?
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Depends on the amount. I was “scammed”/ was a victim of fraud, or whatever the hell happened (we have no idea how it happened, I had my card, had not given my info to anyone, we assume someone hacked a website I had bought something from and kept the info, even though the company is not supposed to do that, and for some reason the normal security settings didn’t get set off), someone got access to my bank info and withdrew about €500, i reported it to the bank, closed my card and reported it to NETS, which is, don’t know how to explain it properly, but they administer card and money higher up in my country, and got my money back the day after
It was so weird, I had 25 withdraws from Facebook on my bank account suddenly, started on €2 and then moved up higher and higher, it happened in one night, I have never bought anything on Facebook, even the bank lady said it looked very, very weird and she didn’t know how it was possible and how no security had been set off
Anyways, point is, mine was a (relatively) small amount and I got it back immediately – but it wasn’t tied to a person, I didn’t personally transfer my money to anybody
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