I recently was scammed for £2500 from an advert on preloved.co.uk claiming to sell 'Cannon EOS 5D MARK 3 AND 4 LENSES' from a Jeffrey (Jeff) and Anthea Douglas. The wrong spelling should have warned me.
They said their location was Kirkwall, Orkney and used an email address 'jadeorganictrees@hotmail.co.uk'.
I feel so stupid as I initially paid with PayPal and this was then refunded after they couldn't get the money for 28 days, so I foolishly paid with a bank transfer!
Upon investigation the email address is shown as from a location near Ullapool, address: The Byre, Rhireavach, Scoraig, Dundonell, Garve, Ross-shire, IV23 2RE. Whether the email address was used fraudulently or not I don't know.
I paid into a Halifax bank account:
sort code 11-18-11
account 30557003.
Action Fraud are aware but they basically said I'll never get the money back and that was before they investigated. Any advice or help much appreciated. I am devastated with what happened.
PM for more details.
They said their location was Kirkwall, Orkney and used an email address 'jadeorganictrees@hotmail.co.uk'.
I feel so stupid as I initially paid with PayPal and this was then refunded after they couldn't get the money for 28 days, so I foolishly paid with a bank transfer!
Upon investigation the email address is shown as from a location near Ullapool, address: The Byre, Rhireavach, Scoraig, Dundonell, Garve, Ross-shire, IV23 2RE. Whether the email address was used fraudulently or not I don't know.
I paid into a Halifax bank account:
sort code 11-18-11
account 30557003.
Action Fraud are aware but they basically said I'll never get the money back and that was before they investigated. Any advice or help much appreciated. I am devastated with what happened.
PM for more details.
Preloved.co.uk camera scam
