A scam letter scheme which could have made an estimated £35m a year has been smashed by officers from the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Police have sent money back to more than 20,000 victims with letters warning them to be more vigilant in the future.
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Police expose '£35m' letter scam
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Victims who lost money in a mass-marketing scam which netted its organisers nearly £35m a year are having their cash returned.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) intercepted cash destined for the fraudsters after a raid in Somerset last year.
The total value of the cash destined for the oversees organisers of the scam was nearly half a million pounds, with the average victim handing over a typical amount of £20.
Everyone who fell for the scam will receive a letter from Soca returning their money and warning them not to be taken in again.
Trevor Pearce, Soca's director of enforcement, said: "Mass market frauds are often sophisticated and convincing - criminals know just which buttons to press to make people part with money, especially in an economic downturn when we are more susceptible to believing good news.
"Unfortunately those who respond to a scam can find themselves on a list which is sold to other fraudsters."
He added: "In this case we've been able to return people's money, and although the perpetrators are abroad and outside our jurisdiction, a substantial blow has been dealt to their operation by cutting off this particular channel."
Another vid,and one of our members on here is in it,jessicas daughter.
Victims who lost money in a mass-marketing scam which netted its organisers nearly £35m a year are having their cash returned.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) intercepted cash destined for the fraudsters after a raid in Somerset last year.
The total value of the cash destined for the oversees organisers of the scam was nearly half a million pounds, with the average victim handing over a typical amount of £20.
Everyone who fell for the scam will receive a letter from Soca returning their money and warning them not to be taken in again.
Trevor Pearce, Soca's director of enforcement, said: "Mass market frauds are often sophisticated and convincing - criminals know just which buttons to press to make people part with money, especially in an economic downturn when we are more susceptible to believing good news.
"Unfortunately those who respond to a scam can find themselves on a list which is sold to other fraudsters."
He added: "In this case we've been able to return people's money, and although the perpetrators are abroad and outside our jurisdiction, a substantial blow has been dealt to their operation by cutting off this particular channel."
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Police expose '£35m' letter scam
For what purpose? We have no right to interfere with or filter mail. End of.
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The Moral of the story is if its too good to be true it probably is.
This reminds me of the Nigerian 404 scams, sometimes people are victims of their own greed, I bin them, let the criminals pay the postage of sending them and get no returns from it.
This reminds me of the Nigerian 404 scams, sometimes people are victims of their own greed, I bin them, let the criminals pay the postage of sending them and get no returns from it.
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