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Shipbourne 'Local Policing'
Antony Wiles PC8024 Contact
details:
email: 8024@kent.pnn.police.uk
phone: 01732 379391
Direct dial to Borough Green Police office - for non urgent matters,
information etc, which can wait until I am next on duty.
phone: 01732 771055
Police switchboard for all departments, police attendance and crime
reporting. For emergencies dial 999 |
PC Tony Wiles
Visit Kent Police website: "Your
neighbourhood"
Kent Police contact numbers:
www.kent.police.uk
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PC Wiles writes this month…
There is a scam currently doing the rounds which has
left a number of people feeling slightly embarrassed and more than
slightly out of pocket.
It starts when you advertise a car for sale and an interested party,
usually via e-mail, contacts you. A price is agreed and then comes the
twist. The purchaser wants the car shipped to Scotland or Ireland or some
other part of the world.
In order for this to be done the purchaser sends a cheque for an amount
far in excess of the sale value of the car, with instructions to pay the
cheque into your own bank account. You are then instructed to deduct the
sale value of the car and forward the remainder to the purchaser’s agent
who will arrange the shipping of the car. That is the last you will see of
thousands of pounds of your own money, and it is your money if you have
not waited for the cheque to clear, which is just what they were hoping
you would do.
The warning signs are usually there, no one comes to look at the car. The
value of the car does not justify the alleged shipping costs. All contact
is via e-mail, the grammar and spelling of which would indicate it
originated outside of the UK. Those cheques, which I have seen have
telltale signs, different sort codes and cheque numbers on the same
cheque, no account holder details printed on the cheque or in the wrong
position.
The cheque is false, it will not clear but by the time you find that out
its too late and you have already sent off your own money to cover the
alleged shipping costs.
Be aware, don’t get caught out and remember – never part with your own
money if it is reliant on another cheque clearing. That money is not in
your account until the cheque has cleared.
Antony Wiles PC8024
Borough Green
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