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Ebay Fraudster


Cozzi

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Recently I have become the 'victim' of internet/ebay fraud.

 

I found a set of seats suitable for the Zed, spoke to the seller who seemed very genuine, provided proof of his address based on his name twice, spoke on the phone, gave me lots of details.

 

I foolishly paid for the item outside of ebay for speed and because he asked me too, and after buying car parts for the last 5-6 years online with no trouble ever, I was obviously too trustworthy.

There are many trustworthy people out there, and a select few ****ing up the system.

 

I paid £350 for the seats (could have been worse) to then find out he regularly sells cars and parts, which he doesn't own, and then drops off the face of the earth.

 

I have found posts generally dotted about the internet after doing some digging, and him openly admitting on facebook about owing people £1000's for FAKE parts and cars. I should have done the digging before buying the item.

 

His name is John Varney, Lives in Ladywell, Livingstone, Scotland.

I have bank account details, age, contact number, email etc etc

 

I have spoken with the police, trading standards, and action fraud who have all taken details but Im a bit unhappy with the lack of response/effort. This happened on Saturday and I haven't heard anything back as of yet.

 

Now without saying the obvious and driving up there to give him a piece of my mind, which trust me at the moment would provide the most satisfaction, does anyone have any advise to help this situation?

 

Glad I got it all off my chest....

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Ring your bank and ask them to recall the transaction? Say you sent it to the wrong account by accident. I think they can do this as my employer paid me to an old bank account which is still open but I have no access to, they were able to recall it and pay me to the correct account.

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I'm here! My apprentice has 42 mutual friends with him but my apprentice has a billion people on Facebook he doesn't know. He works in a shop in Bathgate but was previously in the army. Ddcboyle is I'm the forces and worked from livingston so he may know him.

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I bought a a genuine bodykit for my escort cossie years ago off ebay, same kinda thing and clearly the guy thought hes in Portsmouth im in Liverpool so haha...Wrong.... me and a few of the cage warrior lads turned up at his front door at 6am. He was like " Help police" and his parents invited me in I explained the problem and his dad drove to the cash point and got me my cash...Simple answer is if hes on facebook someone will have his address so go get ya money back :)

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Sadly these days unless he was speeding at the time he committed the fraud and it can be proven, the police wont do @*!#.

 

Have had to report about 8 crimes in ten years, including theft, vandalism, assault and a death threat, not one went further than a statement. During this time I was done for speeding by an unmarked vehicle at 1kmph over the limit + threshold and for not wearing my seatbelt, when I was wearing my seatbelt lol. Both in NZ.

 

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