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Must be a Boro lad!! LOLOnly a complete idiot would send money to a stranger on a messageboard.
What was it ?Just read a bit of it, then skipped to the end, seems like they still don't know for certain if he's ripped them off or not. Really hope he hasn't like, was actually a really canny response from a lot of them. Hopefully it was genuine and he pays them all back later
Link to sausage roll bus story .if I remember right there was some brilliant replies to that .
Didn’t this happen on the SMB once ?
Surely the person can be traced through the site owners from ip addresses and so on?
@Roger. Is that smb policy if someone tried this on here?
The rest he just wastedNo doubt spent it on parmos, teenage hookers and smack.
CheersIts not as simple as that. The majority of people access the site by mobile phone and their IP address is always changing and is shared with lots of other people accessing the site via the same phone company. The location will normally be vague - like London or Dublin or Edinburgh even if people are actually in Sunderland.
Technically, the police can use their powers to request the IP addresses from us and then armed with that information and the time of posting they can go to the phone company and find the mobile number that was using the address at that time and track that - but I doubt they would do that in these cases.
There is a reason we clamp down on people begging and also crowdfunding schemes on here - I am aware of several frauds that have taken place on the message boards and one conviction of someone collecting fraudulent funds following a post on here. Posters aren't always what they seem, even those that have been on the board for a long time.
They've taken the thread down. Any of our resident smoggies know if they got their money back, or if there was any 'conclusion' that we can legally discuss?
Several of the lads who gave money said they have had an e mail from him and they were happy with the outcome(although they never said what that was )
Others haven't heard from him.