Recent content by garth_vader

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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    i see what you did there... i can't post memes until my accounts 30 days old, but trust me: you had a very funny meme coming your way if i could... :)
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    no jamaican. why? is that common in sicily?
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    Exactly what The Byre says: he's offering to pay me by the end of the week. if he doesn't do it by sunday I'm going to start MCOL. thanks for everyones help with this. I might well be wrong about 60, it may be closer to 40, but from what I've found there are around 20 both directors are...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    thanks ML, it might be worth me doing this just to find out what is going on.. i mean, he's been accepting payments for properties on behalf of the 'briscoe estates ltd' in the form of rent, and has been doing so for "15 years" he told me. So what is the situation with it being a 'dormant'...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    surely if hes been starting companies, racking up debts and not paying staff, not paying tax on earnings then dissolving the company there's someone i can report him to? that doesn't seem ethical or legal does it?
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    im not lying to myself. i've accepted i might have lost the money. what im more interested in is he told me he'd been running recruitment companies for years and making a killing off it. now hindsight being 20-20 and looking at the companies he's been running: it looks like he's spent the...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    well it's the difference between going along with the time frame he's put forward (wait one more month and be paid in full) or start proceedings right away i appreciate everyone is saying, dont deal with him again, get your money back, etc - but from where im sitting it feels a little...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    thats good advice i think. but his reasons for not paying seem genuine, and he's always communicative. what i'd like to do is find out if this is in my immagination, and im being paranoid, or if he's done this before to other people. if people are pursuing the other dissolved companies for...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    it does seem odd. i thought i read there were two active companies the rest had been dissolved. I'm owed money for plastering work, plumbing work, decorating work etc done to the properties. I paid the trades-men and he now owes me the money for their work, and other facilities work carried out...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    i could do that i think. how would i go about that, do you think? speak to a chamber of commerce? speak to the business centers the company's were registered at?
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    firstly, is this type of "web" of shelve companies between a family odd? none of them have filed income. so it all seems they're dormant companies, between 5 family members, over 25 years. in my mind im trying to justify that maybe theyre just starting business ventures that havent been...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    it's in the region of £9,000 i'll also need to apply to get the money back, and pay for legal services, unless i can represent myself (looking into if i'm capable of doing that myself now). I'm concerned he might stand up in court and say he's a limited company with £1gbp turnover, and slide...
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    am i dealing with a serial fraudster?

    Hi I have joined because i found a post with a similar query. I am currently owed a substantial amount of money from a company which can be found here: companycheck DOT co DOT uk/director/903986276/MR-JASON-ALEXANDER-BRISCOE/summary My concern is that in looking into this company (it seemed...