Make sure you do not get ripped off in the UK!

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 20:27

Is it greed that suckers people in to these sort of schemes?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13462052

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 20:43

Old news AJ... so many have been caught out, its the world over, not just in NC either as your post says ....



Scams are big where ever you are.... its not just greed, its sites like this that high light them... Years ago nobody had a computer, it was never reported ..

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 20:49

I don't know how these people make these scams up.

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 21:32

Yes AJ - it's greed.......

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 21:38

Not too far from us here in GB , someone put into the papers abroad, America mainly, that they could buy a little slice of English country side, a plot of land that they could visit and camp on etc etc, all for the price of £20,000 and up wards.. Many bought this, not knowing it was just waste land and couldn't camp or do any thing with it...



All this 30 yrs ago...

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 21:44

Years ago in UK when property prices were booming month on month, I uncovered a scam when, in a very short period, half a dozen or so writs of possession arrived on my desk for the same defendant but all different claimant mortgage companies and different properties, the properties in question all being in one county. My investigations revealed that the defendant played the field of mortgage companies, rented out the properties and never paid any more than the first repayment. He knew there was no case in law for a possession action until at least 2 months of arrears and after court postponements, hearings etc, invariably any order for possession made would be suspended at least 90 days to give a chance to pay. In real terms he had the properties for well over a year, collected the rents, and when the possession writs were finally executed he had cash back from the mortgage companies as the sale proceeds by then exceeded the mortgage arrears and the fixed costs of the actions !

ttoli


Joined: 24/03/2007
Posts: 1172

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 21:57

In Lewisham Borough we had a case (2004), smartly dressed lady would knock at someones house at approx 3.15pm and say that she'd broken down en route to picking up the children from school and could She use their phone to call her husband, then went through a staged one way conversation, speaking to secretary, "Well, get him out of the meeting !!", etc, ended up being a 2-3 minute call, then offered a pound coin for payment which was refused.



















1 month later the householder received their bill!!!, The call had been made to a set up premium rate Number

at £40 - £60 per minute!!!,

She was eventually arrested and charged with Obtaining property(Money), by deception, God knows how many didnt report it, thinking it to be their other halves/kids., from memory She got 3 months probation!!!!

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
21/05/2011 21:58

Honestly, who would fall for such scams. I mean as if you'd fall for someone telling you that buying a property was a safe investment, that your lawyer would look after your interests, checking for correct planning permissions, outstanding mortgages on your behalf, that the law would protect buyers, that the developer was an honest man who'd stick to the contract, deliver on time and to the price agreed...

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
22/05/2011 08:46

mess 8 - a worthy post Hector......



Well done...........

0maintenance


Joined: 22/09/2010
Posts: 2179

Message Posted:
22/05/2011 10:09

Heres another one of his scams



http://www.investdrinks.org/claretweb.htm



European Fine Wines' Chairman Scott Assemakis



Theres pages and pages on this guy.



Seems he knows the correct side of the line to stay whithin on his scams.



http://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/News_Article_JS1.cfm?NewsID=3889&YearViewed=2007&Newsmonth=10&EndDay=15&StartDay=1&NoNews=0

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
22/05/2011 13:58

Msg 8: "Honestly, who would fall for such scams. I mean as if you'd fall for someone telling you that buying a property was a safe investment, that your lawyer would look after your interests, checking for correct planning permissions, outstanding mortgages on your behalf, that the law would protect buyers, that the developer was an honest man who'd stick to the contract, deliver on time and to the price agreed..."

Naturally you'd expect all that as a minimum in civilised Western democracies. But those who signed on the dotted line in a territory unrecognised internationally and which they knew full well was created as a result of war crimes must take responsibility for their own actions.