The FN Scam merchant.

[Belker]

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. .....

The 2 FN job offers I got last week were fer 3.30am and 6.10am which kinda scuppers your theory MFH, who is going to hand a bank card over to a taxi driver at those hours ??

[mercenary for hire]

Scammers dont sleep Belker.Could be any number of scams.

[watty]

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. .....

The 2 FN job offers I got last week were fer 3.30am and 6.10am which kinda scuppers your theory MFH, who is going to hand a bank card over to a taxi driver at those hours ??

If you're gullible enough to fall for the scam at 3pm, then why not 3am when the 24/7 fraud dept tells you a 'bad guy' is allegedly using it on the opposite side of the world?

(NTA, 2022) Taxi Drivers Thanked for Defeating Some Bank Card Scams

One of the major banks has asked us to pass on its thanks to taxi drivers who are defeating fraudsters and scammers through their own diligence.

Gardaí have received a number of reports recently of a scam whereby victims receive a smishing text purporting to be from a bank. When the cardholder clicks on the link provided, they then receive a phone call from a person stating they are from their bank.  This person advises the cardholder that their bank card has been compromised and that they will send a taxi to collect their bank card and take it away for testing.  A genuine, pre-booked taxi driver then arrives to collect the envelope/bag from the scam victim to deliver it to an alleged bank official waiting outside the bank branch. The victim later observes that their card was used to make withdrawals and purchases without their consent.

Some taxi drivers have refused to take the envelope from the cardholder, whilst others have refused to hand it over to the alleged branch employee rather giving it to a confirmed branch official inside the bank. This defeats the fraudsters and protects the public. Thank you!

A Garda press release is available on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/100064615877068/posts/garda%C3%AD-at-the-garda-national-economic-crime-bureau-gnecb-are-warning-the-public-/327081352789058

[Belker]

Scammers dont sleep Belker.Could be any number of scams.

I know all that, what I or anyone else does not know is what this current FN scam merchant currently working in Cork and previousely in Dublin is up to ??

[Rat Catcher]

Ring and tell him you want a deuce... cash up front.

[Belker]

Ring and tell him you want a deuce... cash up front.

I contemplated that the last time he booked me but I didn't bother, because no way would he go fer that.

[Rat Catcher]

If you don't ask...

[John m]

If you don't ask...

So Rodent your advice to Grown Up Men .Is accept the Gelt from the Conmen .Especially if already suspect it a fraud .Justice Martin Nolin will give you twenty Seven Years in 400 North Circular for Conspiracy to defraud .

[Rat Catcher]

If you don't ask...

Try working for Free Now in the Northside suburbs for an evening or two... If you report every time you might suspect your services are being used in commission of a crime you'll spend 58+% of your time chatting with completely disinterested coppers in R district... until they get pissed off with you interrupting their night of fast food fueled snooker and have you sectioned!

[Belker]

If you don't ask...

I can kinda agree with that, but this is a well thought out scam (even though we still don't know what it is ??) and I didn't fancy wasting half an hour trying to find out what it was ?? But no way was I ever going to see any notes fer my trouble.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

who ever it is they have a hard on for your phone number.
i told the yoke to just tell me what they wanted in the shop and it kept asking me for my phone number to send me a picture of what they wanted. your phone number is integral to the scam whether it's used against you or it's passed off to another person who's unwittingly being scammed.

[mercenary for hire]

Those phone sex lines cost a fortune.It's much cheaper to ring Belker pulling the pudding for five minutes than to ring the sex chat lines.That's the real scam Belker.Some lonely pervert trying to yogurt themselves.You are the victim....

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

laffin.

[Belker]

Months On and We are still not able to sort out what the Scam is ??

Or have even a decent clue ??

[Rat Catcher]

He turned up in the beautiful seaside resort town of Balbriggan one morning last week, I meant to post it but forgot. Anywaysanall, you were right about him not going for cash up front. I rang him through the Free Now app a couple of minutes after pressing arrived. That's when the name rang a bell, if you'll excuse the pun. I hadn't seen the messages he sent via Free Now but they were there, pretty much as per screenshots in this thread. He wanted my phone number to send pictures of what he wanted me to collect in Dunnes Stores and bring to the hotel. I told him I don't give my number out and I'd need cash up front so I could meet him at the hotel and take it from there... cunt hung up on me. I don't think I got the no contact fee either.