Further to my father in law's loss, like others the full facts were given to the FSA, City of London Police and Action Fraud. All these bodies tell you to contact your local police also which we did and they have been the only body to start any sort of investigation. However when they approached their local HQ for some advice they were told to cease the investigation as police protocol laid it down that the victim should report it to Action Fraud. Neither they , the FSA or City of London Police conduct any individual investigation, in other words there is no help. Twice I have emailed my father in law's MP for his comments......no response.
Fraudsters must be laughing all the way to the bank, even though it's likely based abroad. Currently I am trying to get one of the National Newspapers interested,at least to spread public awareness.
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Action Fraud is just a call centre, they don't investigate anything. You could try Tony Hetherington at the Daily Mail, he has run quite a few stories about boiler room scam though I doubt you have anything new to tell him.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/o...rticle_id=488253&in_page_id=19&in_author_id=5
Have you received anything in writing from the police to say they will be taking no further action? You should write to the local district commander asking for an explanation about the investigation. Its one thing to say they cant do any more because there are no leads, its another one to say they 'we dont deal with this type of thing'. This is a complex fraud no doubt but dont let them palm you off this easily.