The FN Scam merchant.

[mercenary for hire]

I dunno how the taxi job gets paid but at this point the victim has willingly handed over their ATM to the taxi driver who they think has been sent by the bank. The card working isn't the problem.

[Rat Catcher]

The lads I heard of got paid no bother. I think the lucrative fare and/or tip is deliberate to discourage the driver from grassing if he gets suspicious.... They must be scamming way more than the ATM withdrawal limit on the cards.

[mercenary for hire]

Maybe if they're in contact with the victim they can extract more details to buy other stuff online?

[Rat Catcher]

Probably an international element with the cards being cloned within hours...

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

i got an e-mail a while back that went something like this.
how's she cuttin. your phone's front facing camera was hacked.
we recorded you pullin yourself asunder while watchin home and away.
if you don't send us some compo we'll send the video to yizzer friends.
there's some very sick people out there. you'd think they're all confined to cork and laois but they aren't the cunts.

[Belker]

You shoulda just told him it's cash up front or no deal.

As obviousely it is a Scam of some sort, no real point as that would never happen, on both occasions after speaking to him both times, I just waited out the last minute or so of the 5 minutes to get me Fiver Scrub fee, IF FN decide to pay them ?

FN did not pay out on either scrub fee even though all scrub criteria had been done.

[Belker]

The 2 job offers I got from Simpso and Simpson on FN last week were fer 3.30am and 6.10am, and both were within a 10 minute walking didtance across the city.

John m might be on the right trail ??  but why not just jump in to a street taxi and try the card on him rather than leave some sort of trail by using an app ??

This is a sophisticated scam and were only guessing at what it is !

[John m]

One of the scams with Credit or debit cards is you clone a card .Lets say Big Dommo gives you his card you clone it Dommo tells you he has a 10K limit .Now You establish that you are in USA spending Dommos money .Go do the shopping take only a few ton in cash .Dommo gets a bill a month later says WTF I was never in New York .He Shows his passport to prove he was not out of the country and its Fraud .As long as Big Dommo who is in on the Scam does not use his card in Dublin which will raise a red flag if its also in new york its Bank Fraud and Covered yo insurance .Those cards could be cloned from anywhere in the World .I wonder if you did take the full payment lets say 12 notes for the trip 20 notes for smokes and 150 BoBo .Would you be liable to repay it based on what logic says you can reasonably expect a 150 euro bonus for picking up smokes .Could you be actually charged with conspiricy to defraud a credit card Company ?

[taxi1990]

Strange how they give a good tip, not their money but Strange all the same.

[Rat Catcher]

Psychology, I guess. If a taximan rather than a taxi driver gets suspicious and it's a decent fare he's more likely to think of trousering the used notes than wasting hours trying to explain his suspicions to some big thick bogger down the cop shop?

[Belker]

A week on and still we are no closer to figuring out what this FN customers scam is ?

Apart from a few wild guesses at cloned bank cards ??

[mercenary for hire]

In my situation it's simple..

The taxi driver is being used as courier to go between a member of the public who responded to a scam call or website and they're handing the credit or bank card over to a driver who they think has been sent by the bank.

I dunno if the driver gets paid but it's dodgy enough so just don't cover anything that's not a straight forward fare.We're not that stuck for a few quid that we can't tell dodgy fares to piss off.

[Rat Catcher]

Speak for yourself... I've been logged on to both Uber and Free Now since c.07:12 this morning, bar an hour or so for shopping/breakfast and I've taken the princely sum of €19.00!

[mercenary for hire]

Early mornings do really do it for me anymore except Sat/Sun.....Lately I'll do a couple of half days during the week and try to get some ok money on the weekends.Still end up with a bit less than the bus driver but a lot less hours behind the wheel.

[Rat Catcher]

I've been getting up pretty early for the last couple of weeks, not particularly intentionally, just the way my sleep has been... so I've just been logging in and working passively which is highly inconsistent. Last Friday, for example, I started at c08:16 and trousered the guts of 4 ton by c.16:37 with two runs into Santry being the furthest I had to travel. Feast or famine!