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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Scams aren’t fraud. The victim willingly provided information or sent the money to the scammer, and thus are held liable.
Fraudulent activity occurs when the original holder of (typically) funds are taken out of their account or whatever without consent or fore knowledge.
Source: Used to work on the fraud team for debit cards and deposit accounts for a major US bank
PS: be with a bank that has fraud protection and don’t lie to the guy you call about obvious shit, like claiming you were defrauded but the screen shows the card was physically present, and you have your card on you.
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